6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

The 6th Airborne Division, was a British Airborne Division nicknamed "The Red Devils" by the German after Operation Torch.

History
WWII and D-Day

The 6th Airborne Division was first activated on May 3rd 1943. The 6th Airborne was not founded as any ordinary Airborne Division was, it was formed from the 3rd Parachute Brigade and 1st Airlanding which were reassigned from the 1st Airborne Division.

On the night of June 5th to the 6th, the 6th Airborne Division rode in Horsa gliders all the way behind "Sword" beach. Once they landed; the units scattered in order to quickly achieve their objectives. One unit secured Pegasus Bridge and also "Horsa Bridge".The area around Pegasus and Horsa were successfully defended until they were eventually relieved, having repulsed numerous counter-attacks by the Germans. The 6th Airborne Aivision was inactivated on April 1st 1948.

Call of Duty Game
In the Original Call of Duty game, the player takes the role of a British Soldier who at first starts out as a member of the 6th Airborne Division; dropping behind enemy lines the night before D-Day to secure Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal, but then gets reassigned to the Special Air Service; who then gives Sgt. Evans some assignments, sabotage AA guns on Eder Dam, and sabotage the battleship Tirpitz; when in fact there was no such incident besides the attack attempted by 32 Lancaster of the 617th Dam Buster Squadron on October 29th 1944.

Trivia

 * This is the unit that Cpt. Price and Sgt. Evans served in before joining the SAS.