However, No.83 Group RAF, already based in Normandy, were able to provide air support throughout the operation. Operation Epsom was plagued by bad weather on 26 June, both at the battlefield itself, where rain had made the ground boggy and there was a heavy mist, and over the United Kingdom during the early hours of the morning, resulting in aircraft being grounded and the planned bombing missions being called off. JUNE 23 : British forces launch Operation Martlet The Brigade group was withdrawn during the night of 14-15 June. As the Brigade group advanced beyond the town, it was ambushed by German heavy tanks, which forced the British to abandon Villers-Bocage for a more defensible position.
The British bypassed the frontline, and reached the small town of Villers-Bocage, but the Germans had anticipated the thrust and hastily repositioned their reserves to cover their open flank. The raid was carried out by 40 rocket-armed Typhoons in three waves from low altitude, and by 61 Mitchells, which dropped 500lb bombs from 12,000ft.ĭuring Operation Perch, a Brigade group of the 7th Armoured Division attempted to exploit a gap in the German defences to the west of the city. On 10 june 1944, aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force bombed the village. Three days after the Normandy landings, the new location of Panzer Group West’s headquarters was revealed to British intelligence, who had deciphered German signals traffic. JUNE 10 : RAF successfully knocks out Panzer Group West’s La Caine headquarters Fierce German resistance and miscommunication among the British top-brass inhibited the operation, before its objectives were finally achieved. The intention of Operation Perch was to encircle and seize the German-occupied city of Caen, a major Allied objective in the early stages of the invasion of north-west Europe. JUNE 07 : The British forces initiate Operation Perch to capture German-occupied Caen JUNE 06: 7.55am : Canadian and British forces land at Juno Beach JUNE 06: 7.35am : British forces land at Gold Beach These were the only Allied landings that faced attack by German Panzer divisions on 6 June 1944. The initial landings were achieved with low casualties, but the British forces ran into heavily defended areas behind the beachhead. Stretching 8km from Ouistreham to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Sword Beach was the farthest east of the landing points during the operation, and around 15km from Caen.
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JUNE 06: 7.25am : British and Free French forces land at Sword Beach in Operation Overlord JUNE 06: 6.30am : American forces land at Omaha Beach To see this timeline as it appears in the magazine, click here.ĪPRIL 22 1944: Allied forces begin Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion MHM places D-Day within the context of Operation Overlord, picking out some of the most brutal clashes and key events, from the huge-scale preparations to the Liberation of Paris.
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