The invading forces were greeted with moderate fire. They were able to put out suppressing fire, and by 0800 hours the fighting was mostly inland. On the right flank the British had been unable to link up with Canadian forces from Juno Beach , and at 1600 hours tank forces and mechanized infantry men from the 21st Panzer Division launched the only serious German counterattack of D-Day. The 192nd Panzer Grenadier Regiment actually reached the beach at 2000 hours, but the 98 tanks of the 21st Panzer were halted by antitank weapons, air strikes, and Allied tanks themselves. The counterattack was stopped.
Troops move inland, past the seaside villas.
The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London Commandos follow a Sherman tank on their way to linking up with paratroopers at the Orne River. At the end of the day, the British had landed 29,000 men and had taken 630 casualties. The commandos had linked up with the airborne forces at the bridges, though the optimistic objectives of Caen and the Carpiquet aerodrome were still a long 3 miles away.