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Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the west and the Lieu-dit La Rivière in Ver-sur-Mer on the east.
[d] [181] The beach and nearby streets were clogged with traffic for most of the day, making it difficult to move inland. [ 182 ] Major German strongpoints with 75 mm guns, machine-gun nests, concrete fortifications, barbed wire, and mines were located at Courseulles-sur-Mer , St Aubin-sur-Mer , and Bernières-sur-Mer . [ 183 ]
47 RM commando embarked on transport ships for the invasion on 3 June 1944 and left the Solent in two ships on 5 June. At 5:00 a.m. on 6 June, 8 miles (13 km) off the Normandy coast, they were loaded into 14 Landing Craft Assault (LCA), each carrying 30 marines and headed for Gold Beach.
In 1995, following publication of D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, troop carrier historians, including veterans Lew Johnston (314th TCG), Michael Ingrisano Jr. (316th TCG), and former U.S. Marine Corps airlift planner Randolph Hils, attempted to open a dialog with Ambrose to correct errors they cited in D-Day, which ...
Mulberry "B" (British) was the harbour assembled on Gold Beach at Arromanches for use by the British and Canadian invasion forces. The harbour was decommissioned six months after D-Day, when Allied forces could use the recently captured port of Antwerp to offload troops and supplies. Mulberry "B" was operated by 20 Port Group, Royal Engineers ...
Original - Official U.S. Twelfth Army situation map for 2400 hours, 6 June 1944. Reason Once in a while an archival find stands out from the rest. Here's the official (declassified) U.S. Twelfth Army position map from D-Day, showing the intelligence as it was available to headquarters at the end of the day.
Map of the D-day landings, 6 June 1944: Date: 6 June 2018: Source: Operations Greenwood and Pomegranate Normandy July 1944 EN.svg: Author: Operations Greenwood and Pomegranate Normandy July 1944 EN.svg: Philg88. Derivative work: Hogweard; Permission (Reusing this file)
The HQ of the beach group moved to Lion-sur-Mer on 12 June 1944. An advance party of No. 6 Beach Group, which included an anti-tank platoon of the 1st Bucks, landed on the first tide of the invasion on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The remainder of No. 6 Beach Group landed on the second tide of the invasion on D-Day.