Operation Neptune – the landing phase of Overlord — called for a five-division front spread across 50 miles (80 km) of coastline; three airborne divisions (two American, one Anglo-Canadian) would also land in the pre-dawn hours of D-Day. By nightfall on D-Day Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery – commander of ground forces in Operation Overlord — hoped to have eight infantry divisions and fourteen tank regiments on the Normandy beachhead. The landing zone was divided into five beaches—Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah—with the Americans attacking Utah (the westernmost) and Omaha, the British and Canadians attacking Gold, Juno and Sword. Juno Beach was assigned to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division (3rd CID), and covered a six-mile stretch of shoreline between La Riviere to the west and Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer to the east; the beach also encompassed Courseulles-sur-Mer and Bernieres-sur-Mer.
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