| Title | 6 Airborne Div: report on signals operations, 1944 June | ||
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| Description | 6 Airborne Div: report on signals operations, 1944 June | ||
| Source | UK_National_Archive | Reference | WO 223/16 |
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The Airlanding Bde landed according to plan on the evening of D day and was virtually complete. One glider crashed on take off so L Sec was deficient of one offr 9 ORs and 3 wireless sets only.
(i) At Appx W1 is u diagram of comns as planned.
(i) At Appx W1 is u diagram of comns as planned.
Appx W2 shows the comns at D + 7 as the result of re-grouping.
(ii) As each type of set arrived it was put onto the most impor- tant link irrespective of whether or not the link was that normally manned by the crew.
Sets were on listening watch prior to H hr.
(iii) The principal links from div HQ were established as follows:-
| A 1 Airborne Tps | 0755 - in touch 90% of time. |
| 3 BD3 3 Div Lateral ) C 1 1 Corps Comd ) | 0845 - both heard but no comn est until 1800 hrs as confusion arose over codesigns, thereafter comns intermittent but one link was through most of the time providing comns with 1 Corps through 3 Div or vice versa. |
| P 1 A Comd | Initial comn with 5 Para Bde only. 5 Para Bde on at 1235 hrs. 1 SS Bde on at 2045 hrs. |
| P 12 46 set Comd | Comn with para bdes but unsatis- factory with 1 SS Bde. |
| A 30 ASSU | Comn est 0800 hrs. Through 90% of time to HMS LARGS. Priorities started to climb until only an Emergency Ops priority could get our bomb-line accpepted. This improved after D + 3, at about this time comn was est direct with UXBRIDGE. Calls for support averaged two per day. |
| P 15 Airborne Support Net. | 0715 hrs opened. Comns with batteries (still seaborne). Casualties among FOOs precluded any forward working until a solitary spare was sent out to 5 Para Bde. Subsequently the net was properly established and did sterling work. No less than 8 field and Med Regts were phased in between D to D + 7. |
| P 3 B Comd (WT) Net. | This was never opened as traffic did not justify its use. |
In general, wireless has been most reliable. Interference negligible with one or two half-hearted attempts at jamming.
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