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    Clearing the Channel Coast was a World War II task undertaken by the First Canadian Army in August 1944, following the Allied Operation Overlord and the...
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    and defeat the Third Reich. Squadrons of the SFR supported Canadian infantry clearing the German town of Emmerich on the eastern shores of the Rhine River...
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    Operation Undergo (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    threatened the sea approaches to Boulogne. The operation was part of the Clearing the Channel Coast undertaken by the First Canadian Army, following the success...
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  • Battle of La Ciotat Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August 1944 – March 1945 Clearing the Channel Coast: September–November 1944 Operation Astonia Siege...
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    Harry Crerar (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    Totalize, Operation Tractable and the Battle of the Falaise Pocket, before being tasked with clearing the Channel Coast. Crerar was promoted to full general...
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    back. In the meantime, the First Canadian Army finally achieved the task of clearing the mouth of the river Scheldt, despite the fact that in the words of...
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  • Defence. p. 224. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 5 Jan 2010. Report 183, para.158 Report 183, para.160 Clearing the Channel Coast...
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    I Corps (United Kingdom) (category Corps of the British Army in World War I)
    of Le Havre) and Clearing the Channel Coast. I Corps later helped to garrison "The Island" area between Arnhem and Nijmegen in the aftermath of Operation...
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    Second Battle of the Odon and later clearing the Channel Coast in Operation Astonia, garrisoning "The Island" during the aftermath of Operation Market Garden...
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  • military history. The use of irregular forces became common in western Canada during the Second World War, with the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers being...
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    Independent Belgian Brigade (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II)
    participated in Operation Paddle, Clearing the Channel coast from 17 August with British and Dutch (Prinses Irene Brigade) troops of the 6th Airborne Division....
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    Stanisław Maczek (category Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    serving in defence of the Scottish coast between Montrose and the Firth of Forth, the division was equipped by the British authorities with Churchill...
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    from the intentional tactics of military forces. Clearing forests became an element in the Russian Empire's successful conquest of the Caucasus in the mid-19th...
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    Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    in clearing the Channel Coast in the First Canadian Army, and was too close to the English Channel to be involved in Operation Market Garden. By the end...
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  • John Meredith Rockingham (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    transferred to the depleted regiment as a major. Stationed on the south coast of England as part of the anti-invasion force, on 14 April 1943 Rockingham was promoted...
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    Operation Market Garden was unsuccessful. The Canadian First Army had the task of clearing the Channel Coast. Although the port of Antwerp had been captured virtually...
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    used primary for ice clearing in domestic harbors in addition to limited search and rescue and law enforcement roles. The Coast Guard operates about 1...
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    driving eastwards, the regiment continued to serve with I Corps under First Canadian Army in Clearing the Channel Coast. This included the capture of Le Havre...
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    upon recommendations from the NTSB and the Coast Guard. USACE initially estimated that clearing the channel to reopen the port would probably take weeks...
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    Navy ships striking mines; and the third occurred when the Royal Navy conducted mine-clearing operations in the Corfu Channel, but in Albanian territorial...
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    Most of the Gold Coast area was covered by forest prior to European human settlement and extensive land clearing in the 19th century. Gold Coast City lies...
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    needed] Most of the batteries continued firing until September 1944 when they were overrun during the clearing of the Channel Coast. By then more than...
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    147th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
    disbanded) and the Second Battle of the Odon and later in the capture of Le Havre (Operation Astonia), clearing the Channel Coast, and the Battle of the Scheldt...
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    1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey are British Crown dependencies in the English Channel, near the coast of Normandy. The Channel Islands...
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    The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR (known also as the Brighton line, the Brighton Railway or the Brighton)) was a railway company in...
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    Minesweepers began clearing channels for the invasion fleet shortly after midnight and finished just after dawn without encountering the enemy. The Western Task...
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  • and renamed Mont for a final journey in December 2009. After clearing Indian customs, the ship sailed to Alang Ship Breaking Yard, Alang, Gujarat, where...
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  • : 19  The first Sexton Blake story was "The Missing Millionaire". Written by Harry Blyth (using the pseudonym Hal Meredeth), it was published in The Halfpenny...
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    The Channel Islands, Crown Dependencies of the United Kingdom, were occupied during the Second World War by Nazi Germany, from 30 June 1940 until May...
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  • into a channel-sharing agreement with CBS affiliate WUSA (channel 9), moving its transmitter facilities to that station's transmission tower in the Tenleytown...
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