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Bény-sur-Mer
Bény-sur-Mer (, literally ''Bény on Sea'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region, in northwestern France. It lies 5 km south of Bernières-sur-Mer and 13 km north of Caen. World War II During World War II, Bény-sur-Mer was liberated on D-Day by '' Le Régiment de la Chaudière'', a French Canadian unit. There was a gun battery located near the town at the time. D-Day: morning Although garrisoned during the Occupation, Beny-sur-Mer did not play a central role in a major tactical confrontation on D-Day. Instead, the village witnessed three noteworthy incidents on that day. To the northeast, a prolonged struggle unfolded at Château-de-Tailleville (WN 23) before Beny-sur-Mer's security was assured. Directly to its west, a brief encounter occurred at WN 28a later in the day. Additionally, early in the morning, two battalions from the 716 Infantry Division encountered a transformative shift in their day due to Naval Gunfire. *Kompanie 8 (sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery () is a cemetery, burial ground containing predominantly Canadians, Canadian soldiers killed during the early stages of the Operation Overlord, Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. It is located in, and named after, Bény-sur-Mer, in the Calvados (department), Calvados department, near Caen, in lower Normandy. As is typical of war cemeteries in France, the grounds are landscaped and kept. Contained within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice, cross of sacrifice, a monument typical of memorials designed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Canadian soldiers killed later, in the Battle of Normandy, are buried south-east of Caen, in the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located in Cintheaux. History Bény-sur-Mer was created as a permanent resting place for Canadian soldiers who had been temporarily interred in smaller plots close to where they fell. As is usual for war cemeteries or monuments, France granted Canada a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of Calvados (department)
The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. *Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer *Communauté d'agglomération Lisieux Normandie *Communauté de communes de Bayeux Intercom *Communauté de communes Cingal-Suisse Normande *Communauté de communes Cœur Côte Fleurie *Communauté de communes Cœur de Nacre *Communauté de communes Intercom de la Vire au Noireau *Communauté de communes Isigny-Omaha Intercom *Communauté de communes Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge *Communauté de communes du Pays de Falaise *Communauté de communes du Pays de Honf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté De Communes Seulles Terre Et Mer
Seulle Terre et Mer is the intercommunal structure centered on the town of Creully sur Seulles. It is located in the Calvados department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France. It was created in 2017 and its seat is in Creully sur Seulles.CC Seulles Terre et Mer BANATIC, accessed 9 January 2025. Its area is 195.9 square kilometers. As of 2021 the population was 17,461, with 2,266 people living in Creully sur Seulles.Comparateur de territoires INSEE. Retrieved 9 January 2025. Composition Seulles Terre et Mer is made up of the following 28 communes:[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
28/32 Cm Nebelwerfer 41
The 28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (28/32 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War. It served with units of the so-called ''Nebeltruppen'', the German equivalent of the U.S. Army's ''Chemical Corps''. The ''Nebeltruppen'' had responsibility for poison gas and smoke weapons that were used instead to deliver high-explosives during the war. The name "Nebelwerfer" is best translated as "Smoke Mortar". It saw service from 1941–45 in all theaters except Norway and the Balkans. Description The ''28/32 cm NbW 41'' was a six-barrelled rocket launcher mounted on a two-wheeled carriage. Two stabilizer arms and a spade under the towing ring served to steady the carriage while firing. It used two different rockets. The open metal frames of the launcher were sized to fit the rocket, but adapter rails were provided to allow the rockets to fit. The ''28 cm Wurfkörper Spreng (Explosive missile)'' rocket weighed and had a high-explosive warhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Normandy
Lower Normandy (, ; ) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, Lower and Upper Normandy merged becoming one region called Normandy. Geography The region included three departments, Calvados, Manche and Orne, that cover the part of Normandy traditionally termed "Lower Normandy" lying west of the river Dives, the Pays d'Auge (except a small part remaining in Upper Normandy), a small part of the Pays d'Ouche (the main part remaining in Upper Normandy), the Norman Perche, and part of the "French" Perche. It covers 10,857 km2, 3.2 percent of the surface area of France.(Northcutt, 1996, p. 181) The traditional districts of Lower Normandy include the Cotentin Peninsula and La Hague, the Campagne de Caen, the Norman Bocage, the Bessin, and the Avranchin. History :''Regions relating to Lower Normandy: Gallia Lugdunensis, Neustria, and Normandy.'' The traditional province of Normandy, with an integral history reaching back to the 10th century, was div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beny-sur-Mer Airfield
Beny-sur-Mer Airfield is a former Second World War airfield, located 1 km north-northeast of Beny-sur-Mer in the Lower Normandy region, France. History Beny-sur-Mer was completed on 15 June 1944 by Royal Engineers, only 10 days after D-Day. It consisted of a 4,000' SMT runway aligned 08/35, dispersal areas, communications facilities, landing lights and many other requirements to run an airfield. Soon after the airfield began seeing use by the RCAF's 401, 411 and 412 Sqn and RAF's 35 Recce Wing (2 and 268 Sqn), 136 Wing (263 Sqn) and 146 Wing (193,197,257,266 Sqn), flying Hawker Typhoons and Supermarine Spitfire The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allies of World War II, Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. It was the only British fighter produced conti ...s. Beny-sur-Mer Airfield was used until early August 1944, and afterwards the engineers moved in and dismantl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Diadem (84)
HMS ''Diadem'' was a light cruiser of the ''Bellona'' subgroup of the Royal Navy. She was a modified ''Dido'' design with only four turrets but improved anti-aircraft armament – also known as ''Dido'' Group 2. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK, with the keel being laid down on 15 December 1939.Campbell, p. 35Lenton, p. 67 She was launched on 26 August 1942, and completed on 6 January 1944. Service history Royal Navy service ''Diadem'' served on the Arctic convoys and covered carrier raids against the in the early months of 1944, then became part of Force G off Juno Beach during the invasion of Normandy in June. After the landings she carried out offensive patrols against German shipping around the Brittany coast, sinking, with destroyers, '' Sperrbrecher 7'' off La Rochelle on 12 August. She returned to northern waters in September, where she covered Russian convoys and carrier raids against German shipping routes along the Norwegian co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Kempenfelt (R03)
HMS ''Kempenfelt'' was a W-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was the second destroyer of her name to have served in the war; the first ''Kempenfelt'' was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in October 1939 and renamed . Construction and commissioning ''Kempenfelt'' was ordered in December 1941 and was laid down at the Clydebank yards of John Brown and Company. She was built as HMS ''Valentine'', but this was changed to ''Kempenfelt'' as part of a rationalisation of the names used for the later wartime classes of destroyers. She was launched on 8 May 1943 and commissioned into service on 25 October 1943. During her time under construction she had been adopted by the civil community of Hammersmith after a successful Warship Week national savings campaign. Wartime career Mediterranean ''Kempenfelt'' joined the 24th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean in December 1943, and in January was assigned to support the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
