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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 victory, break-out and pursuit from Normandy. The Canadian army advanced from Normandy to the Scheldt river in Belgium.
Strath of Kildonan, also known as Strath Ullie, (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Ilidh), is a strath in Sutherland, in the north of Scotland. It extends in a north-westerly direction from Helmsdale towards Kinbrace .
Map of the liberation of North Brabant and Dutch Zeeland (Battle of the Scheldt). This is a chronological overview of the dates at which the liberation by the Allies in World War II took place of a number of Dutch cities and towns.
Kildonan, Skye, a location in Highland; Kildonan, Sutherland, a parish containing the village of Helmsdale, Highland Kildonan railway station, in this area; Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland; Kildonan, Arran, a village on the island of Arran, North Ayrshire
Cloth Maps of World War 2, John G. Doll, Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol 20, No.1, Nov 1988, pp24–35. US Navy Handkerchief Charts of World War 2, John G. Doll, UNKNOWN PUB, pp 190–192. The Making of Military Maps, William H. Nicholas, National Geographic, Jun 1943, pp764–778.
Helmsdale (Scots: Helmsdal, [2] Scottish Gaelic: Bun Ilidh) [3] is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland.The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances.
This was a phase of the European Theatre of World War II. Originally called Operation Anvil, these landings had been intended to take place at the same time as the Normandy landings of Operation Overlord , commonly called D-Day, but were postponed because the necessary shipping was committed to the Normandy operation.
The Line of Contact marked the farthest advance of American, British, French, and Soviet armies into German controlled territory at the end of World War II in Europe. In general a "line of contact" refers to the demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent.