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	Tourville in Normandy 1944
		On 26 June the Allied forces launched the attack in the rain.
		The bridge of Tourville on the river Odon cost many casualties to the 15th Scottish Infantry Division.
		Monument in memory of the soldiers of the 15th Scottish Infantry Division, 43rd Wessex and 53rd Welsh Division killed in the Battle of Odon.
	www.normandie44lamemoire.com /versionanglaise/fichesvillesus/tourvilleus2.html (359 words)

	The Battle for Hill 112 - 1944
		During the breakout battles of Normady, the Battle for Hill 112 was viewed as critical to both the British attackers and German defenders.
		It was here that the British breakout came to a halt, following the crossing of the Odon, and the fighting around the high ground of the infamous Hill absorbed several British formations during the summer of 1944.
		The Battles for Hill 112 were symbollic for both sides during the early days of the Normandy invasion of 1944.
	www.army.mod.uk /lightinfantry/history_traditions/major_battles/hill_112_1944/index.htm (364 words)

	Battle of Villers-Bocage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early on 13 June, elements of an armoured regiment (the British term "armoured regiment" is equivalent to a tank battalion in other armies) and Motor battalion (mechanized infantry) of 7th Armoured Division approached the town of Villers-Bocage from the northwest.
		The tanks took the direction of the castle of Parfouru on Odon, where, after repairs were made to the 14 survivors, they attacked under the command of Hannes Philipsen; four tanks from the south and ten by Clémenceau Street.
		However, it is also true that in the close quarters of this battle, the British 17-pounder was capable of defeating the armour on Wittmann's tank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Villers-Bocage (2045 words)

	Battle for Caen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle for Caen from June to August 1944 was a battle between the Allied and German forces during World War II's Battle of Normandy.
		From 8 to 19 July there was a battle near Tilly-sur-Seulles between parts of the 30th British Army Corps and the German Panzer Lehr Division, which is usually known as the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles.
		Operation Overlord and the battles in Normandy successfully gave the Allies a foothold in France, which led to the liberation of the rest of Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_for_Caen (5170 words)

	Battle Honours
		attle Honours are conferred by the Sovereign and recognise the presence of a regiment at, and its participation in, a particular battle or campaign.
		Some of our most prized Battle Honours, such as Gibraltar and Quebec, were not authorised until many years after the event, while hard-fought victories such as Namur 1695, Germantown 1777 and Alkmaar 1799 have never been honoured.
		The Battle Honours shown in bold below are borne on the Colours of The Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
	www.army.mod.uk /qlr/history/battle_honours.htm (328 words)

	The battle for Hill 112
		From this elevation the entire valleys of the Odon and Orne could be seen, and the Germans said, "He who controls Hill 112 controls Normandy." Certainly they clung to it desperately, and when they were driven off counter-attacked at once to regain possession.
		They reached their objectives at the crest of the hill, although for several hours fierce close-quarter battles continued in the wheat where SS troops manned concealed machine-gun nests and refused to surrender even when wounded.
		The next year when there was an opportunity to compare notes with the 9th SS Panzer Division, it was revealed that in the battle for Hill 112 casualties reduced their strength to five or six per company.
	www.hill112.com /battle.htm (701 words)

	Battle Honours Limited - Past Battle Tours - Ham and Jam
		In glorious weather, we walked the Battle for Normandy over a rewarding 5 days; our group came from the glamorous corners of the earth such as Ontario Canada, County Down Northern Ireland and Wolverhampton (well nearly all glamorous).
		Our billet was the 3* Mercure Hotel at Ouistreham, a minute from Sword Beach, the surrounding restaurants and bars negated the need to travel far in the evenings to socialise, it is definitely a spot we would use again.
		That evening we toasted the men of Operation Overlord as the group dined together, make no mistake this was not just an ordinary Normandy Battlefield tour that travels from Museum to Memorial to Café, this was for battlefield enthusiasts and we can’t wait for the next one.
	www.battle-honours.co.uk /tours_past_ham.htm (680 words)

	The Scenario Depot II
		This battle was inspired by the valiant stand of the Soviet 1077th AA regiment in the opening days of the Battle for Stalingrad in August of 1942.
		November 1943, Eighty miles west of Kiev, the 4th Panzer Army, still convinced that the Red Army was a spent force, was able to mount a successful riposte at Zhitomir during the middle of November, blunting the Soviet bridgehead via a daring outflanking strike mounted by the SS Panzer Corps along the river Teterev.
		This battle attempts to capture the unique struggle between Soviet and Finnish forces in the âWinter Warâ that began in the December of 1939.
	www.the-scenario-depot.com /support_info.html (5964 words)

	The battle for Caen
		The main phases of the Battle of Normandy >>
		The British and Canadians were pinned down in the cornfields around the city.
		Caen was to become the linchpin of the Battle of Normandy.
	www.normandiememoire.com /NM60Anglais/2_histo4/histo4_p05_gb.htm (586 words)

	Waffen-SS: Caen: Battle of Attrition, 1944
		Willi Bittrich's other division, the Hohenstaufen, was on the north bank of the Odon, linking his corps to the army panzer units to the west.
		SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler's Hohenstaufen Division was released from west of the Odon to counterattack and retake Hill 112.
		By the middle of the afternoon on 11 July, the British infantry regiment was being ripped to pieces by machine-gun, tank, artillery, mortar and rocket fire.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /waffenss/1944/caenbattleofattrition.htm (1487 words)

	Battle of Caen: The Stalingrad of the Hitler Youth
		Battle of Caen: The Stalingrad of the Hitler Youth
		On the eastern road, however, from Cheux to the Odon bridges progress was rapid.
		This patched-up division, with little resemblance to its former elite character, was engaged in the Battle of the Bulge and subsequently in Hungary and Austria, but with little noticeable effect.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/hitler/lectures/battle.html (5998 words)

	Battle of Villers-Bocage at AllExperts
		Early on 13 June, elements of an armoured regiment (the British term "armoured regiment" is equivalent to a tank battalion in other armies) and Motor battalion (mechanized infantry) of 7th Armoured Division approached the town of Villers-Bocage from the northwest.
		The tanks took the direction of the castle of Parfouru on Odon, where, after repairs were made to the 14 survivors, they attacked under the command of Hannes Philipsen; four tanks from the south and ten by ClÃ©menceau Street.
		However, it is also true that in the close quarters of this battle, the British 17-pounder was capable of defeating the armour on Wittmann's tank.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/battle_of_villers-bocage.htm (2035 words)

	John Poindexter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936 in Odon, Indiana), a retired naval officer, is best known as a prominent United States Department of Defense official.
		While commander of a destroyer squadron, he was Surface Warfare and ASW Commander of battle groups in the Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, and he developed new tactics and battle management procedures under the Composite Warfare Commander concept.
		As the commanding officer of a cruiser, he pioneered the shipboard use of computers to manage the ship's force portion of yard overhauls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Poindexter (1191 words)

	Odon Beothy - LoveToKnow 1911
		ODON BEOTHY (1796-1854), Hungarian deputy and orator, was born at Grosswardein, his father being a retired officer and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county of Bihar.
		At the age of sixteen he served in the war against Napoleon, and was present at the great battle of Leipzig.
		Like so many others of his compatriots, he picked up Liberal ideas abroad.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Odon_Beothy (325 words)

	Military History Online - D-Day June 6, 1944
		Rommel, absent in Bavaria during the opening hours of the battle, arrived back at Army Group B Headquarters late in the evening, and began re-organising the currently fragmented command structure.
		Most of the terrain over which the battle of the coming weeks would be fought was well-suited to such a strategy.
		Bucknall, soon to be replaced as commander of XXX Corps by the more dynamic and thrusting Brian Horrocks, had cost the British their last real chance of staging a major breakthrough in the Caen sector before German defences solidified.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/dday/foothold.aspx (2524 words)

	Battle of Crécy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the most terrible battles of the Middle Ages and also one of the most decisive battles of all time was waged in its immediate
		This battle is also notable for Czech history because of Czech King Jan of Luxembourg, who brought a support force of several thousand armor-clad knights to the rescue of the French.
		The battle at Crécy was only one of many incidents of the Hundred Years’ War, which was in fact a series of eight great conflicts, and plunged Britain and France into war for more than 100 years (1337-1453).
	www.arms-armor.cz /battles/crecy/index.php3 (1951 words)

	Regimental Battle Honours
		Listed next are some battles of the 33rd and 76th which are not shown on the Colours but should not, on that account, be forgotten.
		Other battles deserving to be remembered are Valenza (1705); Alcantara (1706) and Saragossa (1710), all of which were convincing victories.
		Eventually no less than ten Battle Honours were awarded to the 33rd and 76th for their services during the long period of the wars against Napoleon.
	www.dwr.org.uk /dwr.php?id=111&pa=52 (1275 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry (France)
		The battle of Hastings is described on the "Queen Mathilda's Tapestry" or "Bayeux Tapestry".
		It seems it was ordered from an English embroidery workshop by Odon de Canteville, William's uterine brother, Count of Kent and Bishop of Bayeux.
		Although the tapestry was made more than twenty years after the battle in 1088-1092, these two flags, at least, could be expected to be well known and hence fairly accurately portrayed.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr_bayxt.html (1205 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Operation Epsom (26 June 1944/30 June 1944)
		The 5 day battle “Epsom” was a bitter one which began for our unit at Le Mesnil Patry and proceeded through Hant-du-Bosq to Cheux and then to Grainville.-sur-Odon.
		After the battle there, we advanced south of Grainville with a view to join other forces to veer east in the region of HILL 112 to encircle Caen.
		My regiment, the “Cameronians” were to be relieved for a rest behind the lines at the end of June 1944, but I had to join a patrol of 10 men to make a reconnaissance behind German lines which then resulted in my being shot in the foot and ankle and captured.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/22/a5277422.shtml (558 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: April 7 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Naval Battle of Navarino by Carneray 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		In the Iran-Contra Affair, United States President Ronald Reagans administration secretly sold arms to Iran, which was engaged in a bloody war with its neighbor Iraq from 1980 to 1988 (see Iran-Iraq War), and diverted the proceeds to the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the leftist and...
		Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/April-7 (8987 words)

	Amazon.ca: Battle Tech: Honour Bound: Books: Mel Odon
		Amazon.ca: Battle Tech: Honour Bound: Books: Mel Odon
		And that brings us to the walk-throughs--the heart of the book and the most important section for all of you frustrated MechCommanders.
		Each mission walk-through includes a battle map and step-by-step guidelines for victory.
	www.amazon.ca /Battle-Tech-Honour-Mel-Odon/dp/product-description/0761505563 (305 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Normandy: Hill 112 - The battle of the Odon: Books: Tim Saunders
		Its a brilliantly executed piece of writting and tells the story of the battle for the hardly heard of Hill 112.
		The tours are useful especially for those new to the area and the locations of cemeteries and memorials helps to complete a visit to the area.
		Tim Saunders has written a fine book about a fine Division and bitter battle that should be remembered.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0850527376/bokkap-21 (631 words)

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