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Bayeux Bypass

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1944Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1944

Miles Christopher DempseyJune 1944

Bayeux · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Dempsey's logistical system used the bypass to move supplies and vehicles toward the front.

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stJune 1944

Bayeux · Warfare / World War, 2nd

British engineers built a bypass so military traffic could avoid Bayeux's narrow medieval streets.

Names involved

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stMiles Christopher Dempsey

Provenance

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