Editing Juno Beach (section)

===Juno===
[[File:HMS Lawford 1944 IWM A 21817.jpg|thumb|right|{{HMS|Lawford|K514|6}}, one of several {{sclass2|Captain|frigate|1}}s converted to act as a headquarters ship for the Normandy landings, note the extended superstructure (to accommodate the [[Staff Officer]]s) and additional smaller mainmast to support the extra aerials. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk.]]

[[Operation Neptune]], the landing phase of Overlord, called for a five-division front spread across {{convert|50|mi|km|abbr=on}} of coastline; three airborne divisions (two American, one British, which also included a Canadian battalion) would also land in the pre-dawn hours of D-Day.{{sfn|Barris|2004|p=23}} Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery hoped to have eight infantry divisions and fourteen tank regiments in the Normandy beachhead by nightfall on D-Day.{{sfn|Granatstein|Morton|1994|p=18}} The landing zone was divided into five landing areas, with the Americans attacking Utah (the westernmost) and Omaha, and the British attacking Gold and Sword. Juno, a {{convert|6|mi|km|abbr=on}} stretch of shoreline between La Rivière to the west and Saint-Aubin to the east, was assigned to the [[3rd Canadian Infantry Division]] (3rd CID), commanded by Major-General [[Rod Keller]]. Juno included the villages of Courseulles and Bernières.{{sfn|Granatstein|Morton|1994|p=56}}

The name "Juno" arose because [[Winston Churchill]] considered that the original code name – Jelly – sounded inappropriate. The code names for the beaches to be taken by British and Commonwealth forces were named after types of fish: Goldfish, Swordfish and Jellyfish, abbreviated to Gold, Sword and Jelly. Churchill "disapproved of the name Jelly for a beach on which so many men might die". He insisted on a change to the more dignified name Juno.{{sfn|Caddick-Adams|2012|p=325}}