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Operation Martlet

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

2Records
1944Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1944

Evelyn Hugh Barker25 June 1944

Caen · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Barker's division attacked toward Rauray to protect the Epsom flank near Caen.

Neil Methuen Ritchie25 June 1944

Caen · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ritchie's corps launched Operation Martlet to secure the flank of the forthcoming Epsom offensive west of Caen.

Names involved

Evelyn Hugh BarkerNeil Methuen Ritchie

Provenance

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