Over 200 are used by the 18th Airborne Battalion which is a part of the 6th Air Assault Brigade.

During the airborne phase of the Normandy invasion on the night of 5 – 6 June 1944, British 6th Airborne Division captured all its key objectives in advance of the seaborne assault, including the capture and holding at all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham.

The 6th Airborne Division was called in to provide security as a means of ending the strike.

The Allies eventually formed two British and five American airborne divisions: the British 1st Airborne Division and 6th Airborne Division, and the US 11th Airborne Division, 13th Airborne Division, 17th Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, and 101st Airborne Division.

The British glider transported troops and paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division secured the eastern flank in Operation Tonga of which Operation Deadstick, capture of the Pegasus Bridge is the best remembered objective.

Operation Varsity was a daylight assault conducted by two airborne divisions, the British 6th Airborne Division and the American 17th Airborne Division, both of which were part of the US XVIII Airborne Corps.

* Flint, Keith, Airborne Armour: Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, 1938 – 50, Helion & Company, 2004

He served in the 1 sl Canadian Parachute Battalion, attached to the 6th British Airborne Division.

Initially, he served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment and being assigned to the 7th ( Light Infantry ) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division.

The US 17th Airborne Division, employed in a standard infantry role and not in a parachute capacity, attacked Münster with the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade on 2 April 1945 in a ground assault and fought its way into the contested city center, which was cleared in urban combat on the following day.

With the 6th Airborne Division still refitting after Operation Tonga, the task of securing the Rhine Bridgehead fell to the 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Roy Urquhart.

The British airborne formation involved was 6th Airborne Division, with the British seaborne divisions being the 3rd Infantry Division landing at Sword Beach and 50th ( Northumbrian ) Infantry Division and 8th Armoured Brigade on Gold Beach.

The 6th Airborne Division landed to secure the eastern flank of the assault forces.

They also mistakenly bombed Drop Zone ' V ' of the 6th Airborne Division, killing 78 and injuring 65.

* 6 June 1944, RAF fighters bombed and strafed the HQ entourage of 3rd Parachute Brigade ( British 6th Airborne Division ) near Pegasus Bridge after mistaking them for a German column.

* 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

Ministry of Defense forces included the 103rd Guards Air Assault Division and the 38th Separate Assault-Landing Brigade ; the 28th Army Corps ( Grodno and Brest regions ), composed of headquarters at Grodno, the 6th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 11th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 50th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the Armament and Equipment base, and corps units ( missile troops, antiaircraft, chemical and engineer troops, signals, and rear services ); the 65th Army Corps ( Minsk and Vitebsk regions ), composed of headquarters at Barysaw, three armament and equipment bases, and corps units ; and the 5th Guards Army Corps ( Minsk and Mahilyow regions ) made up of headquarters at Babruysk, the 30th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, two Armament and Equipment bases, and corps units.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

* Oral history interview with Mike Busha, a member of the 6th Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

The military counterpart, that of the 15th Reinforced Regiment " Dragoons " is now as of 2010 the 4th Armored Brigade " Chorrilos " based in Punta Arenas as the 6th Armored Cavalry Squadron " Dragoons ", and form part of the 5th Army Division

They were a part of the French 6th Light Armoured Division, whose mission was to protect the coalition's left flank.

In their inaugural season played at Target Field, the Twins finished the regular season with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses, clinching the AL Central Division title for the 6th time in 9 years under manager Ron Gardenhire.

The 1st SS Panzer Division — spearhead of the 6th Panzer Army — never got more than halfway to the Meuse River.

Adolf Hitler fought in the 5th Battle of Ypres ( near Passchendaele ) in 1918 as a member of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division and was injured on 13 – 14 October 1918, when he was caught in a British gas attack on a hill south of Werwick.

The Japanese army mounted its assault on the Nanking walls from multiple directions ; the SEF ’ s 16th Division attacked three gates on the eastern side, the 6th Division of the 10A launched its offensive on the western walls, and the SEF ’ s 9th Division advanced into the area in-between.

During the Hundred Days, Napoleon put Jérôme in command of the 6th Division of the II Corps under General Honoré Charles Reille.

The above order, is the tuning from the 1st string ( highest-pitched string e '— spatially the bottom string in playing position ) to the 6th string ( lowest-pitched string E — spatially the upper string in playing position, and hence comfortable to pluck with the thumb.

** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).

In 1971 the army's force consisted of the 1st Groupement at Kananga, with one guard battalion, two infantry battalions, and a gendarmerie battalion attached, and the 2nd Groupement ( Kinshasa ), the 3rd Groupement ( Kisangani ), the 4th Groupement ( Lubumbashi ), the 5th Groupement ( Bukavu ), the 6th Groupement ( Mbandaka ), and the 7th Groupement ( Boma ).

Of the magnitude of one centimeter, they are dated to the Etruscan floruit from the 2nd half of the 6th to the 1st centuries BC.

In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

3rd Battalion of Infantry, 4th Battalion of Infantry and 6th Battalion of Infantry in the Northern Command, 1st Battalion of Infantry, 2nd Battalion of Infantry and 5th Battalion of Infantry in the Southern Command.

In Indian philosophy, Kanada was the first to systematically develop a theory of atomism during the 6th century BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE.

* 1736 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia ( d. 1799 )

The lesson was re-learned, first by the Pakistani Army in the 1965 War with India, where the nation fielded two different types of armored divisions: one which was almost exclusively armor ( the 1st ) while another was more balanced ( the 6th ).

The city was called Lutetia ( more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, " Lutetia of the Parisii "), during the Roman era of the 1st to the 6th century, but during the reign of Julian the Apostate ( 360 – 363 ), the city was renamed Paris.

Exceptionally heroic or high-performing units earned the Guards title ( for example 1st Guards Special Rifle Corps, 6th Guards Tank Army ),, an élite designation denoting superior training, matériel, and pay.

The century that each centurion commanded was a direct reflection of his rank: command of the 1st century of the first cohort was the highest, and the 6th century of the 10th cohort was the lowest.

( eventually Murray paid £ 180 to Darwin for the 1st edition and by Darwin's death in 1882 the book was in its 6th edition, earning Darwin nearly £ 3000.

In the International Taekwon-Do Federation, instructors holding 1st to 3rd dan are called Boosabum ( assistant instructor ), those holding 4th to 6th dan are called Sabum ( Instructor ), those holding 7th to 8th dan are called Sahyun ( master ), and those holding 9th dan are called Saseong ( grand master ).

In nearly every case the 1st and 6th stanza, or the 1st stanza alone, are sung / played rather than the entire song, which would result in about 15 minutes of music.

They are: Centro Storico ( 1st ); Pineta Zerbi, Tremulini and Eremo ( 2nd ); Santa Caterina, San Brunello and Vito ( 3rd ); Trabochetto, Condera and Spirito Santo ( 4th ); Rione Ferrovieri, Stadio and Gebbione ( 5th ); Sbarre ( 6th ); San Giorgio, Modena and San Sperato ( 7th ); Catona, Salice, Rosalì and Villa San Giuseppe ( 8th ); Gallico and Sambatello ( 9th ); Archi ( 10th ); Ortì, Podàrgoni and Terreti ( 11th ); Cannavò, Mosorrofa and Cataforio ( 12th ); Ravagnese, San Gregorio, Croce Valanidi and Trunca ( 13th ); Gallina ( 14th ); Pellaro and Bocale ( 15th ).

The city often ranks extremely highly out of all 103 Italian cities for quality of life, standard of living, and business and job opportunities, coming 1st, 6th and 2nd respectively.

The arms were Quarterly of twelve, 1st, Or, a semé of hearts Gules, a lion rampant Azure ( Lüneburg ); 2nd, Gules, two lions passant guardant Or ( Brunswick ); 3rd, Azure, a lion rampant Argent crowned Or ( Eberstein ); 4th, Gules a lion rampant Or, within a border componé Argent and Azure ( Homburg ); 5th, Or, a lion rampant Gules crowned Azure ( Diepholz ); 6th, Gules, a lion rampant Or ( Lauterberg ); 7th, Per fess, in chief Or, two bears ' paws erect Sable ( Hoya ), in the base a gyronny, Argent and Azure ( Old Bruckhausen ); 8th, Azure, an eagle displayed Argent, langued, beaked and membered Gules ( Diepholz eagle ); 9th, Chequy Argent and Gules ( Hohnstein ); 10th, Argent, a stag's attire in bend Gules ( Regenstein ); 11th, Argent, a stag trippant Sable ( Klettenburg ); 12th, Argent, a stag's attire in bend sinister Sable ( Blankenburg ).< ref >

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, 1st Earl of Chester ( 23 May 1208?

Phosphates at the 4th and 5th positions interact more extensively than the phosphate at the 1st position and the hydroxyl group at the 6th position of the inositol ring.

, the Richmond City Council consisted of: Kathy C. Graziano, 4th District, President of Council ; Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, Vice-President of Council ; Bruce Tyler, 1st District ; Charles R. Samuels, 2nd District ; Chris A. Hilbert, 3rd District ; E. Martin ( Marty ) Jewell, 5th District ; Cynthia I Newbille, 7th District ; Reva M. Trammell, 8th District ; and Douglas G. Conner Jr., 9th District.

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

The name is said to have originated when Moungatonga, the 6th Tui Haatakalaua ( King who governs the daily business of Tonga on behalf of the Tui Tonga or Sacred King of Tonga ) sent his youngest son, Ngata ( later to be 1st Tui Kanokupolu ) as governor to Hihifo ( Western side of Tongatapu ).