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    Ouistreham (French pronunciation: [wistʁe.am]) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy region in northwestern France. Ouistreham is a small...
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  • Between Two Worlds (French: Ouistreham) is a 2021 French drama film directed by Emmanuel Carrère, loosely based on Florence Aubenas's 2010 autobiographical...
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    The canton of Ouistreham is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    Reporter (2009), Le Quai de Ouistreham (2010) and En France (2014). Le Quai de Ouistreham, set in the port of Ouistreham in northern France, won several...
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    of a series of basins on the Canal de Caen à la Mer, linking Caen to Ouistreham, 15 km (9.3 m) downstream, on the English Channel. The port of Caen was...
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    (110 mi) long. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne, east of Sées. Its main tributaries are...
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    walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Ouistreham, on the Normandy coast of the English Channel, with Bourg-Madame, on the...
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    (120 mi) northwest of Paris, connected to the South of England by the Caen (Ouistreham) to Portsmouth ferry route through the English Channel. Situated a few...
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    Service Brigade), Philippe Kieffer (who led his men in the assault on Ouistreham), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (who commanded the Free French Forces in the invasion)...
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    neighbouring village, is a road crossing over the Caen Canal, between Caen and Ouistreham in Normandy. The original bridge, built in 1934, is now a war memorial...
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    (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean). Port-en-Bessin was used to represent nearby Ouistreham in the 1962 film The Longest Day. Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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    Millin, Lovat's personal piper. Members of No. 4 Commando moved through Ouistreham to attack from the rear a German gun battery on the shore. A concrete...
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    and holding at all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham. In memory of their tenacity, the bridge has been known ever since as...
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    connecting the Port of Caen, in the city of Caen, downstream to the town of Ouistreham and the English Channel. Running from north north-east to south south-west...
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    France commenced on 6 June 1944. Stretching 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Ouistreham to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, the beach proved to be the easternmost landing...
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    Men of 4 (Army) Commando engaged in house to house fighting with the Germans at Riva Bella, near Ouistreham...
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    France. It is located on the Canal de Caen à la Mer close to Caen and Ouistreham. Château de Bénouville completed in 1777 by Claude Nicolas Ledoux Pegasus...
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    vétérans ennemis sont devenus voisins à Ouistreham" [Two enemy veterans have become neighbors in Ouistreham]. Ouest France (in French). 26 June 2011...
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    based on the MV Normandie, which also operates on the Portsmouth–Caen (Ouistreham) route. Construction started on 7 June 2001 and she was launched on 15...
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  • James Clothing (A), Künkel, Thalazur Imprimerie NII, Guilloux Carrefour Ouistreham Crédit Agricole Normandie, Printngo Publicité None Concarneau Stéphane...
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    combat, when the French Troops were maneuvering to seize the Casino of Ouistreham near Sword. Commander François Jaubert was a Navy officer, commanding...
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    bath house. In 1976, Angmering was twinned with the Normandy town of Ouistreham on the "Riva-Bella", the location of the World War II Normandy Landings'...
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    Portsmouth–Cherbourg Portsmouth–Jersey and Guernsey Portsmouth–Le Havre Portsmouth–Ouistreham Portsmouth–Saint Malo Rosslare–Cherbourg Rosslare–Roscoff Weymouth–Saint...
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    exact location for the drop was 4.8 km (3 mi) inland between Cabourg and Ouistreham, just north of the heavily-defended city of Caen. It would be dropping...
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    also easy access to and from the UK using the ports of Cherbourg, Caen (Ouistreham), Le Havre and Dieppe. Jersey and Guernsey are often considered to be...
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    Retrieved 28 December 2020. "L'ancien champion du monde Emmanuel Petit à Ouistreham : "98 nous unira à vie"". France 3 Normandie (in French). 26 May 2018...
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    would run a fastcraft service between Portsmouth and Cherbourg/Caen (Ouistreham) as a replacement and The Lynx was chartered. In January 2005, she was...
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    (in Bar-sur-Seine) Touques (in Deauville) Dives (in Cabourg) Orne (in Ouistreham) Vire (near Isigny-sur-Mer) Aure (in Isigny-sur-Mer) Douve (near Carentan)...
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    sometimes considered as the countryside of Paris. Calvados, via the port of Ouistreham, is an entrance to the continent from Britain. There are two airports:...
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    was mentioned in the Domesday Book in a Norman form, Oistreham (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). Hām is Old English for a village or homestead...
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