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Operation Tonga was the codename for the airborne operation of the British 6th Airborne Division during the Normandy landings.


Background

Prelude

Operation Tonga

6 June 1944

0007 to 0011

Between 0007 and 0011 the six British gliders part of Operation Coup de Main each broke loose and steered towards their objectives[1].

0016

At 0016 the first gliders landed near the Caen canal and Orne river bridges, and two minutes later they began their assault to capture them[2].

0026

By 0026 the two bridges had been successfully been taken and secured[3].

The bridges over the river Dives were assigned by the 3rd Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers to be destroyed to delay German reinforcements[4] [5].

0030

Oberleutnant Brandenburger of the 5th Battalion reported that he was currently seeing an airborne drop ocurring east of the Orne[6].

0050

The 5th Parachute Brigade is dropped near Ranville[7].

Sometime later, members of the 5th Parachute Brigade and the 7th Parachute Battalion reinforced the Caen canal and Orne river bridges


Aftermath

Citations

  1. "Operation Coup de Main". WWII Archives. 28 November 2022.
  2. "Operation Coup de Main". WWII Archives. 28 November 2022.
  3. "Operation Coup de Main". WWII Archives. 28 November 2022.
  4. "D-Day timeline". D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia.
  5. "The British Airborne Assault". The National Archives. 22 November 2005.
  6. "5th Battalion, 125th Mechanized Infantry Regiment". WWII Archives. 29 November 2022.
  7. "5th Parachute Brigade". WWII Archives. 28 November 2022.

Bibliography

Ford, Ken; Zaloga, Steven J (2009). Overlord : the D-Day landings. Oxford.

Ambrose, Stephen E (1985). Pegasus Bridge : June 6, 1944 (1st ed.). Touchstone. ISBN 0-671-67156-1.

"D-Day timeline". D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia.

"The British Airborne Assault". The National Archives. 22 November 2005.

Contributors: Paul Sidle