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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.
Normandie (Schiff, 1935) Usage on fa.wikipedia.org استریملاین مدرن; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Normandie (paquebot) Raymond Delamarre; Toma Barbu Socolescu; Usage on he.wikipedia.org סטרים ליין; Usage on hr.wikipedia.org Art déco; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org Art déco; Usage on it.wikipedia.org Normandie (transatlantico)
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.
Images from events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in France.
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.
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.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
The Normandie class consisted of five dreadnought battleships ordered for the French Navy in 1912–1913, Normandie, the lead ship, Flandre, Gascogne, Languedoc, and Béarn. The design incorporated a radical arrangement for the twelve 340 mm (13.4 in) main battery guns: three quadruple- gun turrets , the first of their kind, as opposed to the ...