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Sword Beach

d. 1944

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Photograph at the Sword Beach war memorial

The easternmost of the five Normandy landing beaches, assaulted on 6 June 1944 by the British 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Special Service Brigade and French Commandos under Philippe Kieffer.

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Photographs

Photograph of Sword Beach

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Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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