Caen (UK: /ˈkɒ̃ ˈkɒn/; French: [kɑ̃] ; Norman: Kaem) is a commune 15 km (9.3 mi) inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the prefecture of...
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objective for both sides. Caen and the area to its south are flatter and more open than the bocage country in western Normandy. Allied air force commanders wanted...
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Herbert Eugene Caen (/keɪn/; April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider...
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its creation. Work started in July 1937 and ended in March 1938. Air base 720 Caen-Carpiquet was inaugurated on 17 August 1939. Captured by the Luftwaffe...
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Athlone House (redirect from Athlone House (formerly Caen Wood Towers), Highgate)
Athlone House, formerly known as Caen Wood Towers, is a large Victorian house in Highgate, north London, England. Built around 1872, it was designed by...
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Caen stone (French: Pierre de Caen) is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is...
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Operation Overlord (section Caen)
expanded when they captured the port at Cherbourg on 26 June and the city of Caen on 21 July. A failed counterattack by German forces in response to Allied...
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Operation Goodwood (category Battle for Caen)
for Caen in Normandy, France. The objective of the operation was a limited attack to the south, from the Orne bridgehead, to capture the rest of Caen and...
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timeline of the history of the city of Caen, France. 912 – Caen becomes western capital of Normandy. 1060 – Château de Caen (castle) built by William the Conqueror...
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Operation Charnwood (category Battle for Caen)
Anglo-Canadian offensive that took place from 8 to 9 July 1944, during the Battle for Caen, part of the larger Operation Overlord (code-name for the Battle of Normandy)...
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36944 The communauté urbaine Caen la Mer is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Caen. It is located in the Calvados...
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During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing...
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for Caen, and the ultimate breakout from the beachhead, Operation Cobra. Unlike Eighth Air Force, whose units stayed in the United Kingdom, Ninth Air Force...
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July 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery ordered a massive air assault against Caen in the hopes of clearing the way for a ground attack the following...
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Normandy landings (category Battle for Caen)
first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands. Caen, a major objective, was not captured until 21 July. Only two of the beaches...
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Calvados coast towards Caen with the aim of taking the city on either D Day or two days later. Montgomery attempted to take Caen with the 3rd Infantry...
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Brit Air (short for Brittany Air International) was a regional airline based at Morlaix – Ploujean Airport in Ploujean, Morlaix, Brittany, France, operating...
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Air France flies to 29 domestic destinations and 201 international destinations in 94 countries across Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania as of...
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November 2021. "Air Caen". Airline History. Retrieved 18 November 2021. "Air Champagne Ardennes". Airline History. Retrieved 18 November 2021. "Air Continent"...
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to the city of Caen, tasked with a number of objectives. The division was to capture two strategically important bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne...
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Kenwood House (redirect from Caen Wood House)
been built around 1616 by the King's Printer, John Bill, and was known as Caen Wood House. It was acquired in 1694 by the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance...
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Buffalo Airways (redirect from Buffalo Air Express)
between Cabourg and Ouistreham, just north of the heavily-defended city of Caen. It would be dropping the 9th Parachute Battalion as part of the 6th Airborne...
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Allied air forces were able to fulfill all the tasks assigned to them, albeit with delays due to bad weather, as in the case of the Battle of Caen. The...
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Strategic bombing during World War II (redirect from Air bombing on Germany)
close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power. During World War II, many military strategists of air power believed that air forces...
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The capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (wrongly known as Operation Deadstick (which in fact was a specialized glider exercise), and in official...
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at Pegasus Bridge, the first landing of troops on D Day that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges. On the night of 5/6 June 1944, D Company, 2nd...
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McNair and his wife Jean were working at an orphanage in the French town of Caen, where reportedly they had turned their lives around completely. McNair was...
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Sword Beach (category Battle for Caen)
navies. Among the five beaches of the operation, Sword is the nearest to Caen, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the goal of the 3rd Infantry Division...
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of their most successful exploits during the war was the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges by coup de main, which occurred on 6 June 1944...
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assigned to the Eighth and later Ninth Air Force. During the Battle of Normandy, it supported Allied forces at Caen, and participated in the massive blows...
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