The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne ... Day landing and to form a buffer to keep the German counterattacks away thus allowing 3rd Division to advance from Sword Beach to seize Caen ...

More than 400 multinational paratroopers jumped into Normandy on Wednesday 5 June in a unique tribute to the soldiers who parachuted in on D-Day ... soldiers of 6th Airborne Division were the ...