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The raid was carried out at rooftop level and during the first attack, a Mosquito hit a lamp post, damaging its wing and the aircraft crashed into the Jeanne d'Arc School, about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) from the target, setting it on fire.
The Shadow in My Eye (Danish: Skyggen i mit øje), also known as The Bombardment, is a 2021 Danish war drama film written and directed by Ole Bornedal.The film deals with, among other things, Operation Carthage carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War, where one of the planes crashed near Institut Jeanne d'Arc, causing the school to be ...
The Institut Jeanne d'Arc, also Den Franske Skole, was a French-language Roman Catholic school at 74 Frederiksberg Allé in the Frederiksberg district of central Copenhagen, Denmark. Established in 1924, it was bombed by the Royal Air Force on 21 March 1945, during Operation Carthage , when pilots mistook the school for their actual target ...
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be ...
Jeanne d'Arc in prison: Gillot Saint-Èvre: private collection oil on canvas, 119 x 109 cm 1835 The Arrest of Jeanne d'Arc: Adèle Martin private collection oil on canvas, 112 x 85 cm before 1843 Jeanne d'Arc: Raymond Monvoisin: Collection of the Palacio Vergara de Viña del Mar oil on canvas, 142 × 101 cm (55.9 × 39.8 in) 1843
In peacetime, Jeanne d'Arc was a teaching and training vessel for the naval officers' application academy, and at the same time possessed an aerial group of 2 Aérospatiale Puma and 2 Aérospatiale Gazelle French Army light aviation helicopters, as well as two Alouette III naval aviation helicopters.
Fort Jeanne d'Arc is located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west of Metz. It was designed for a garrison of 1900 men and armed with six 100mm guns in two batteries, six 150mm howitzers in two batteries and four 77mm guns in casemates.
During the Siege of Compiègne, d'Arc and her small army attempted to take the city back from Duke Philip III, who had allied with the English and King Henry V of England following the Treaty of Troyes ten years earlier. [22] His army captured and imprisoned d'Arc and around 200 of her soldiers, including d'Aulon and her brother Pierre, on 23 ...