D-Day + 5

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

6 Airborne Div. Night 10/11. 153 Inf Bde crossed R ORNE during the night and entered the Div area - units being directed no under.
BW to attack and capture BREVILLE on morning 11 Jun. Thereby filling the gap between 1 SS Bde and 3 Para Bde. 1 Gordons to pass through 8 Para Bn and occupy a covering posn immediately South of that unit's area. This op being carried out during hrs of darkness.
5/7 Gordons to pass through 1 Gordons on morning 11 Jun to attack TOUFFREVILLE.
0930 - BW held up on outskirts of BREVILLE.
1915 - 5/7 Gordons entered TOUFFREVILLE unopposed and consolidated
1915 - 4 SS Bde entered the div area and came under comd 6 Air- borne Div. Took over North of area previously occupied by 1 SS Bde.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun
I.Sum.6

6 Airborne Div.
Enemy Sit.
(a) The last 24 hrs have been disappointing from the pt of view of contact with the enemy. A dawn attack on BREVILLE 1374 by a newly arrived bn proved unsuccessful and earned us a retaliatory shelling on the RANVILLE area as well as on posns South of SALLENELLES 1276. There were a few more PW as well as some deserters from 858 Gren Regt; one of them came from No.15 - an AA - Coy and all continued the tale of woe which their comrades captured from the same unit the previous evening had already told. ........... Whichever is the case, the fact remains that civ sources reported later in the day CUVERVILLE 1069 clear of enemy, while our attack on TOUFFREVILLE 1368 this evening was somewhat unnecessary as it was found unoccupied. Lack of activity in the Southern sector arouse the suspicion that 21 Pz Recce may have moved away to new posns without giving battle.
(c) Enemy Intentions: The enemy appears to have given up any hopes he may have entertained of driving through to the BENOUVILLE brs. This view is supported by the fact that 346 Div have remained strictly on the def all day whilst the 21 Pz Div elements have been markedly inactive in the area North and NW of TROARN and may even have started thinning out. In ??? the absence both of new identifications in the area between the ORNE and the DIVES and of Tac R reports of move towards the VARAVILLE br, it looks as though 346 Div is not going to be reinforced and its role will be to delay our adv to the DIVES. 711 Div may in the meantime dispose itself along the high ground East of the DIVES to contain the left flank of the br head on this line.

HQ RA 6 Airborne Div.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

3 Airldg A Tk Bty RA
New guns in posn.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

53 Airldg Lt Regt RA
HF.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

HQ 5 Para Bde. - 0740 - Attack by 5 Black Watch on BREVILLE fails.
BREVlLLE becoming enemy strong point. Day quiet except for spasmodic mortaring from area BREVILLE. 12 Para Bn relieve 4 Cdo during night in area HAUGER and come under comd 1 SS Bde.
Chester Wilmott and Leonard Mosely, war correspondents with 6 Airborne Div leave for England.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

7 Para Bn. - LE MESNIL - 1535 to 1809 - Bn completed successful attack on enemy in woods between bn posn and LE MESNIL taking up final posn in LE MESNIL.

WD Jun 44
11 Jun

12 Para Bn.
Quiet night.

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