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unusual facts about Invasion of France



1939 24 Hours of Le Mans

The following year's 24 Hours of Le Mans was originally planned for June 1940, but due to the invasion of France in May the race was called off.

78th Fighter Group

In addition to other operations, the 78th participated in the intensive campaign against the German Air Force and aircraft industry during Big Week, 20–25 February 1944 and helped to prepare the way for the invasion of France.

Niagara Parkway

In mid-August 1943, Sir Winston Churchill came to Canada to attend the Quebec Conference, a then-secret meeting in Quebec City to discuss a strategy for the invasion of France which would come to be known as D-Day.


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29th Weapons Squadron

Prepared for the invasion of France and on D-Day 1944, released paratroops near Picauville; dropped reinforcements over the same area on 7 June 1944.

Geneviève Duboscq

She received the Legion of Honor from the French Government and she and her family received America's Guard of Honor in recognition of the assistance that she and her family gave the US 82nd Airborne Division during the invasion of France in 1944 by the Allies.

Gladiateur

Following the invasion of France by Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, Count Frederic de Lagrange shipped his horses out of the country to the safety of England where they were sold at a Tattersalls auction.

Hansgeorg Bätcher

In 1940 Bätcher participated in the invasion of France, though he was shot down and captured near Rouen on 5 June 1940.

Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien

This Army of Condé shared in the Duke of Brunswick's unsuccessful invasion of France.

Marcel Ophüls

Following the invasion of France by Germany in May 1940 they were forced to flee to the Vichy zone, remaining in hiding for over a year before crossing the Pyrenees into Spain in order to travel to the United States, arriving there in December 1941.

Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March

In 1359, and continuing into 1360, he was Constable of Edward III's invasion of France, fighting in the failed siege of Reims and capturing Auxerre.

Rudolf Schmidt

His brother Hans-Thilo Schmidt sold details of the Germans' Enigma machine and other sensitive military information to the French Deuxieme Bureau from 1931 until the German invasion of France in 1940.

Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings

In the 1540s, he served King Henry VIII as Marshal of Calais and keeper of the castle at Guînes, then took an active role in the invasion of France in 1544, in particular at Montreuil and the sieges of Boulogne.