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SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
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Five heavy cruisers (main guns of 8 inches) took part, three from the United States and two from Britain, HMS Hawkins had her original armament of seven 7.5-inch guns while HMS Frobisher ' s main gun armament had been reduced from seven to five single-mounted 7.5-inch guns.
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.
Most of the 48 American World War II veterans who arrived in Normandy on Monday to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion here insisted on standing up for us all one more time by ...
Vladimir Yourkevitch working on design of SS Normandie. Vladimir Yourkevitch (Russian: Владимир Иванович Юркевич, also spelled Yourkevitch, 1885 in Moscow – December 13, 1964) was a Russian Naval engineer, and a designer of the Ocean Liner SS Normandie. He worked in Russia, France, and the United States.
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Fairmile Designs and US Submarine Chasers of Allied Coastal Forces of World War II. Vol. I. London: Conway. ISBN 0-85177-519-5. Lucas Phillips, C. E. (1958). The Greatest Raid of All: Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire. Sapere Books. ISBN 9781800550643.
Around 200 veterans attended this year’s D-Day event in Normandy, the youngest in their 90s and some over 100. ... Veterans wave at cheering people from a bus in Benouville, France, on June 5 ...