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Combined Ops Memorial
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Information about the memorial
including its location in the grounds of the
National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
It will embrace all from the many Allied
nations who served in Combined Operations or
were trained by them in the art of amphibious
warfare. |
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Dieppe,
France (Jubilee) |
[Land]
Nos 3 & 4 Commando with 50 US Rangers, the Canadian 2nd Division. [Sea] 230 ships with 3000 men. [Air] 65 RAF Squadrons
(fighters, fighter/bombers and bombers). |
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1st Canadian Corps |
This account of Combined Operations training
at the No 1 CTC Inveraray is presented in two parts; the first a report from official
Canadian war records and the second the personal recollections of a
Canadian war artist. |
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Fighter Direction Tenders (FDTs) |
The story of the 3 radar, communications
and intelligence gathering vessels off the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 -
Fighter Direction Tenders (FDTs) 13, 216 & 217. |
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W Commando |
The story of Canada's Juno beach Commandos from training
in Scotland to Normandy on D-Day and beyond. |
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Landing Craft Operator |
Canadian Lloyd Evans
packed more experience of life into just a few years than most young
people manage in a lifetime... even today. Although there were times of rest and
relaxation always present was the next unknown mission with moments of
great danger. |
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Small
Landing Craft |
One Canadian
volunteer's training in small landing craft operations. Thousands of
landing craft of many different kinds, together with a well trained
force of Navy personnel to operate them, were essential for any major
seaborne landing against entrenched enemy positions. |
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Ice Ships in the
Rockies! |
The improbable but true story of a top
secret WW2 project to build ships from a mixture of ice and sawdust. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye
will not believe, though it be told to you. So reads a biblical quotation from the book of Habakkuk ... a name adopted by the top secret project
to build ice ships. |
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Wolfe's Combined
Operation |
How Wolfe's raid on Quebec in 1759 unwittingly set the
ground rules
for successful amphibious Combined Operations. |
