On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the British 9th Parachute Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway, attacked the Merville Battery in Normandy neutralising the German artillery threatening Sword Beach. Despite severe obstacles and heavy casualties, Otway gathered a small force and successfully infiltrated the heavily fortified battery. They disabled the guns aimed at Sword Beach where the British troops were about to land in the early hours of the D-Day operation.
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A generation of brave and selfless men. To all those heroes: I salute you. Thank you for saving the world🕊️❤
80% of these paratroopers were POLES… FROM THE PARACHUTE DIVISION COMMANDED BY POLISH GENERAL SOSABOWSKI… AND THE ENGLISH DIDN'T EVEN INVITE THESE PEOPLE TO THE VICTORY DEPHILADE IN LONDON… BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF WHAT STALIN WOULD SAY… SAD BUT TRUE . ENIGME…THE GERMAN CIPHER AND THE ENCRYPTION MACHINE WERE ALSO DEVELOPED BY THE POLES BEFORE THE WAR AND GAVE ONE OF THESE MACHINES TO FRANCE AND ENGLAND.. AND LATER, 3 POLISH ENGINEERS DECIDED THE IMPROVED CIPHER. ENIGMY ALREADY IN ENGLAND… WHY CAN'T THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ADMIT THIS?
Would make an awsome movie.
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The heros glidered in to grounds around the soon to called pegauses bridge
Less we forget 🇬🇧 ❤😢
There have been many British movies about WW II but I am waiting for a British version of BOB and The Pacific. Come on I know you got the talent ( hell half the BOB actors were British) perhaps Sir Peter Jackson can do it !
JUMPED?????
the Ox and Bucks LIGHT INFANTRY that took Pegasus bridge came in Gliders