Gold Beach
Ver-sur-Mer, FR
The British landing zone between Arromanches and La Rivière on June 6, 1944, where the **50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division** overcame stiff German resistance in the small coastal town of Le Hamel. By evening the division had advanced 10 km inland; Bayeux — the first French city liberated after D-Day — fell the following morning without damage.
Photographs (3)
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 Men of 46 (RM) Commando, 4th Special Service Brigade, entering the village of Douvres-la-Delivrande, 8 June 1944, watched by French civilians.
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 A Cromwell Mk IV tank of 4th County of London Yeomanry, 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, with infantry aboard, comes ashore from an LST, Gold area, 7 June 1944.
Universal Carriers of the British 50th Division wade ashore from LCTs on Jig sector Gold Beach — IWM B5244 — 6 June 1944