late June 1944, almost three weeks after the D-Day landings on 6 June. Soon after arrival the division transferred from XII Corps to Lieutenant-General John Crocker's I Corps and on 8 July, took part in Operation Charnwood, a frontal assault aimed at capturing Caen. Although a D-Day objective for the British 3rd Division, stubborn resistance from the German 21st Panzer Division prevented the division from capturing the city, as had numerous attempts afterwards. Lyne's 59th Division, supported by elements of the 27th Armoured Brigade, and with the British 3rd Division on its left and the 3rd Canadian Division on its right, attacking through La Bijude and Galmanche, were faced by the 12th SS Panzer Division and fierce fighting took place, although by 9 July most of Caen was in Allied hands. The 59th Division, in its first major operation, suffered over 1,200 casualties. The division soon moved back on 11 July to XII Corps, two days later transferring to Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall's XXX Corps. In mid-July the division fought in the Second Battle of the Odon, where, it had to capture Noyers and Missy, operating with the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division. The operation, which failed and cost the 59th Division further casualties, was intended to divert German attention away from Operation Goodwood. The division again joined XII Corps and, after the Americans launched Operation Cobra, XXX Corps, now commanded by Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks after Bucknall was sacked, launched Operation Bluecoat and the Germans began withdrawing to Falaise. At the same time, in the first week of August, the 59th Division, with the 56th Independent Brigade temporarily under command and supported by elements of the 34th Tank Brigade, launched an attack over the Orne river and after much hard fighting – with Captain David Jamieson of the 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolks securing the 59th Division's first and only Victoria Cross (VC) – secured a bridgehead at Grimbosq, before advancing to Falaise where it held the edge of the "pocket". The end of the Normandy Campaign also saw the disbandment of the 59th Division. By this stage of the war, Britain had reached the limits of its manpower, replacements for casualties were severely lacking and some units were broken up and their men posted to other units to fill gaps. With Lyne's 59th Division being the most junior British division in France, it was broken up, although not as a reflection