'Mallard' (ii) was the British air delivery of Brigadier the Hon. H. K. M. Kindersley’s 6^th Airlanding Brigade as a reinforcement for Major General R. N. Gale’s 6^th Airborne Division during the implementation of 'Overlord' (6 June 1944).

Like Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s US 82^nd Airborne Division and Major General Maxwell B. Taylor’s US 101^st Airborne Division in the Cotentin peninsula on the western side of the Allied beach-head, the 6^th Airborne Division had been delivered during the initial 'Tonga' landing in slightly the wrong places, but unlike the US formations it was at least relatively well concentrated, with much of Brigadier S. J. L. Hill’s 3^rd Parachute Brigade and Brigadier J. H. N. Poett’s 5^th Parachute Brigade grouped within a triangle some 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) deep, and mostly to the east of the Orne Canal. The 5^th Parachute Brigade (7, 12 and 13/Parachute) took the bridges over the Orne and Caen Canals and held them until relieved by Major General T. G. Rennie’s 3^rd Division, while the 3^rd Parachute Brigade (8 and 9/Parachute and Canadian 1^st Parachute Battalion) was more scattered but managed to achieve its objectives of blowing the bridges over the Dives river and destroying the Merville battery before being relieved by the 3^rd Division.

'Mallard' (ii) delivered the 6^th Airlanding Brigade in gliders to fields on each side of the Orne river in an area to the south of Ouistreham cleared of German obstacles by the engineers of the 5^th Parachute Brigade.

The men of the 6^th Airborne Division then served as conventional infantry until the end of the Normandy battle, mainly against elements of Generalleutnant Erich Diestel’s 346^th Division of General Hans von Obstfelder’s LXXXVI Corps within Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann’s 7^th Army.