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The ship was completed by North Vancouver Ship Repair on 29 July 1942. [2] On 6 March 1943, the ship departed Glasgow, Scotland, for Bone, Algeria, as part of the merchant convoy KMS-10. Later that day, the German submarine U-410 attacked the convoy while it was off the coast of Portugal, striking Fort Battle River and Fort Paskoyac with
Marseilles to North Africa Ms Marseilles to Naples: 1944 1945 MW Alexandria to Malta: NCF fast convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily: 1943 1943 NCS slow convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily: 1943 1943 NP Turkey to Port Said: NSF North Africa to Naples: troopships NV Naples to Augusta, Sicily: OM Oran to Marseilles: 1944 1944 PH Piraeus to heel ...
Albert Head, 9.2-inch guns, counter bombardment battery during WWII Mary Hill 48°20′42″N 123°32′55″W / 48.34500°N 123.54861°W / 48.34500; -123.54861 ( Mary Christopher Point Battery – 1941–44 - 2 × 8-inch M1888 American railway guns
The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
Naval battles of World War II involving Canada (1 C, 85 P) Pages in category "Battles of World War II involving Canada" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total.
The North Shore handles more than 40% of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's international trade exports. [1] In addition, CN controls a less-used former BC Rail line north to Prince George, British Columbia. [2] [3] This line was used until October 2002 for the Cariboo Prospector passenger rail service between North Vancouver and Prince George.
A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...
Burrard Inlet (Halkomelem: səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coastal slopes of the North Shore Mountains, which span West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver to the ...