Assault on the Merville battery, 9th Parachute Battalion

In the early hours of D-Day, June 6th, 1944, the men of the British 9th Parachute Battalion are dropped behind enemy lines with one mission: destroy the Merville Battery before it can fire on the Allied landings at Sword Beach. Scattered, under-equipped, and outnumbered, they press forward into the dark—through minefields, machine-gun fire, and reinforced concrete.

In this episode, we cover one of the most daring airborne assaults of the Second World War, following the battalion from their rehearsals in England to the chaos of the drop zone, the brutal assault on the casemates at Merville, and their final stand at Le Plein.

This is the story of men who didn’t just fight the enemy—they fought the plan, the odds, and the night itself.

Listen now for a gripping, moment-by-moment account of one of D-Day’s most critical operations.

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