Table of Data Points

Tag : Naval

1944-06-06Juno Beach

Situated between Sword Beach and Gold Beach. It is also known as the Canadian beach, as it was assigned to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Juno Beach stretched from Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on the east to Courseulles-sur-Mer on the west.

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1944-06-06Gold Beach

The beach was assaulted by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division (which included the Devonshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire and East Yorkshire regiments) between Le Hamel and Ver sur Mer.

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1944-06-06Omaha Beach

Very little went as planned during the landing at Omaha Beach. Difficulties in navigation caused the majority of landing craft to miss their targets. The defenses were unexpectedly strong, and inflicted heavy casualties on landing US troops.

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1944-06-06Pointe du Hoc

Three companies of Rangers landed by sea at the foot of the cliffs, scaled them using ropes, ladders and grapples under enemy fire, to engage the enemy at the top of the cliff.

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1944-06-06Utah Beach

Utah Beach, about 5 km long, was the westernmost of the five landing beaches, located between Pouppeville and the village of La Madeleine, which became the right flank anchor of the Allied offensive along the western bank of the Douve river estuary.

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1944-06-04U-505

An American task force consisting of the escort aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal and five destroyers, damage and then capture U-505. The capture allowed Allied cryptanalysts to break the special "coordinate" code in enciphered German messages.

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1944-05-151944-05-18Wakde

759 Japanese troops are killed during the capture of Wakde island by US troops from the 163rd Regimental Combat Team of the 41st Infantry Division (supported by naval task force 77). 40 American troops are killed during the operation.

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1944-05-10USS Cod sinks Karukaya

US Submarine Cod attacks a convoy of 32 freighters. She sinks a freighter and the Japanese destroyer Karukaya before being driven off by a massive depth charge barrage.

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1944-04-28Lyme Bay

946 soldiers are killed and 200 wounded when nine German E-Boats based in Cherbourg raid a convoy of LSTs that were part of a D-Day training exercise.

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1944-04-22Operation Persecution

Allied and American troops undertook an amphibious landing at Aitape in New Guinea. The operation was designed to isolate the Japanese 18th Army at Wewak.

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