Juno Beach

By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian Division, supported by the specialist assault tanks of the 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's 'Funnies'). Despite careful planning, poor D-Day weather led to a piecemeal landing and heroic individual battles in the streets of the seaside towns.

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Some books that may interest you

Enfield in the Great War By: Stephen Wynn	Britain's Airborne Forces of WWII By: Mark Magreehan	Battle of Berlin By: Martin Bowman
The Agincourt War By: Alfred H. Burne	Dresden By: Sinclair McKay	Voyages from the Past By: Dr Simon Wills
The Nine Hundred By: Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead	I Was Hitler's Pilot By: Hans Baur Introduction by: Roger Moorhouse	Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors By: Phil Tomaselli