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Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

Documentary | History

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Release Date

April 17, 2013

Duration

90 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the central beach of the Allied D day landings. The beach was one of the 2 extra beaches that Montgomery had added to the COSSAC plan and the two veteran formations chosen were highly successful achieving nearly all their objectives despite some hard and bloody fighting. It was on this beach that WO2 Stan Hollis won the only VC of D Day.

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Andy Johnson

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Andy Johnson

Tim Saunders

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Tim Saunders

Tom Dormer

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Tom Dormer

Richard Hone

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Richard Hone

Tim Stoneman

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Tim Stoneman

Andrew Duff

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Andrew Duff

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