History glossary
Gold Beach
the British D-Day landing beach between Omaha and Juno.
- Category
- Landing beach
- Region
- Normandy, France
- Date range
- 1944
What it means
Gold Beach was a British landing sector on D-Day. Troops came ashore between Omaha and Juno, overcame German positions, and helped connect the Allied beachhead in Normandy.
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