6 June marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day beach landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Early on the morning of 6 June 1944, swarms of landing craft arrived on the beaches of northern Normandy in France, and 135,000 Allied soldiers started to pour onto French soil.. The 80km stretch of beaches, north of Bayeux, were code-named (from west to east) Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.. The five main beaches involved in the D-Day landings in Normandy on 6 June, 1944 were given the codenames Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword and Juno. The map room of the Allied World War Two naval.

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Sword Beach was the most easterly of the Commonwealth Normandy landing beaches on D-Day. It lies on an 8-kilometre of the Normandy coast between Lion-sur-Mer in the west and Ouisteham in the east. It is around 15 kilometres away from Caen. Sword Beach was and is very sandy, turning into dunes.. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations.