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I recreated Sword Beach Queen Red Sector, specifically WN20 but better known as "Strongpoint COD", or the "Twin Villas". This is the most historically accurate LEGO DDay Moc that I have ever attempted!

Very big thanks to...
‪@TheMiniBrick‬ for sending me some WW2 LEGO minifigures https://www.theminibrick.com/
‪@BrickByDesign‬ for sending me the Sherman Duplex Drive https://www.brickbydesign.co.uk/
‪@DWBrickStudios‬ for letting me use his DDay LEGO Stop Motion Short!

CORRECTIONS:
The beach had to be compressed somewhat so that I could fit it onto the baseplates, so this lego dday build isn't perfectly to scale.
After further research, it does appear as if 1st Battallion South Lancashire Regiment mainly landed in Queen White Sector, so I should have given greater priority to 2nd Battallion East Yorkshire Regiment.
The majority of the forces would have landed in larger troop transport, or even tank transport landing craft. For example an LCT, LCI(L)... and so on.
The left building of the "Twin Villas" isn't precisely the right shape.
I'm not certain on the position of sandbags and such, as there are no images showing what was where, well none that I could find.
The Royal Marine Commando Bagpiper "Bill Millin" is wearing a Gordon Highlanders Tartan, on the day he would be wearing Clan Cameron Tartan.
Most of the British LEGO minifigures are WW1 uniforms, some even Canadian & Austrlain Lego World War 1 uniforms. Of course, they should be wearing WW2 Uniforms.
When introducing officer casualties, I accidentally said 2nd battalion South Lancs and showed SL cap badge, when I meant to say 2nd battalion East Yorks.

REFERENCES:
https://www.normandywarguide.com/arti...
https://www.ddayoverlord.com/en/batt...
https://www.ddayoverlord.com/en/batt...
https://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlant...
https://premierrelics.com/store83/ex...
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/art...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/battlef...
https://www.britannica.com/place/Swor...

PLEASE REMEMBER: I am limited by the lego bricks at my disposal, the cost of purchasing lego ww2 minifigures, the size of the build, and the time in which I have to do it. This is my best effrort with the resources currently at my disposal!

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The LEGO Bricklink Studio 2.0 Omaha Beach moc that I used for a render can be found here:
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/d...

I specifically wanted to recreate a lego d day build that wasn't omaha beach. I feel like the history of the other 4 beaches are quite overshadowed, and simply looking at the massive pile of lego dday mocs on youtube will demonstrate this nicely. Whilst the landings at Omaha Beach were particularly horrific, there's a lot of heroism and also trajety to be found on the other 4 beaches, and the battles that would surely follow.

I built a 100% HISTORICALLY ACCURATE Lego DDay Moc!

Edited by: Carly www.carlyiam.ca

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