Airborne assault: the spearhead of the D-Day invasion
Saul David walks listeners through the earliest stages of the D-Day invasion, highlighting the significance of the initial airborne assault
Hours before the assault on Normandy’s beaches got under way on 6 June 1944, British airborne troops launched an attack on targets in the French countryside. And as Saul David writes in this Long Read marking the 80th anniversary of this pivotal moment, the success of the entire D-Day landings was at stake.
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