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Gold Beach was the central beach of the five Normandy D-Day landing beaches. It consisted of three sectors with King on the east and Item and Jig to the west.
On 11 June 1944 Thomas Hennell (and Edward Ardizone) left Portsmouth for Normandy to record the allied positions, arriving only five days after the D-Day landings. Hennell sketched the immediate area and aftermath around and to the south of the beaches, including the village of Ver-su-Mer and the German radar installation at Douvres.
Hennell then moved inland and recorded allied activity at Bénouville and Ranville and then ultimately, at the relief of Caen.
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