HMNB Portsmouth the military and naval units destined for Sword Beach on the Normandy coast as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944. Troops destined for each of the landing beaches left from Portsmouth aboard vessels such as the armed merchant cruisers HMCS "Prince Henry" and HMCS "Prince David", escorted by the Canadian destroyers HMCS "Algonquin" and "Sioux". The majority of the naval support for the operation left from Portsmouth, including the Mulberry Harbours. Boathouse 4 (built around the start of hostilities) contributed to the construction of landing craft and support vessels as well as more
Résistance Joué-du-Plain and the Assassination of Emile Buffon and various small arms to protect the saboteurs. What the local French didn’t know was to come to stab them in the back over and over again. First a local Frenchman had been recently arrested for black market activities was converted to the German cause. The collaborator Bernard Jardin lived with his mother, a local café owner. Smart, energetic and ambitious, he knew how to get the hard information, and cruelty came easily to him. He personally killed 4 Frenchmen he suspected of being Resistance. His conversion came in April 1944. May 10, a few weeks before D-day, June 6,