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Allied siege of La Rochelle. French Army armoured car which participated in the liberation of La Rochelle in 1945. Musée d'Orbigny-Bernon. The Allied siege of La Rochelle occurred during the Second World War in 1944–45, when Allied troops invaded France. [ 1][ 2] La Rochelle was an important German naval base on the Atlantic for surface ...
La Rochelle during the siege The Siege of La Rochelle (map), Stefano della Bella, 1641 La Rochelle, surrounded by Royal fortifications and troops, Jacques Callot, 1630. Siege of La Rochelle, with nearby Île de Ré, by G.Orlandi, 1627. First seawall, built by Pompeo Targone, 1627. Second seawall, designed by Clément Métezeau.
Operation Aerial. / 47°N 2°E / 47; 2. Operation Aerial was the evacuation of Allied military forces and civilians from ports in western France. The operation took place from 15 to 25 June 1940 during the Second World War. The embarkation followed the Allied military collapse in the Battle of France against Nazi Germany.
After a search and rescue mission that drew attention around the world, the wreckage of the Titan was found on the ocean floor about 984 feet (300 meters) off the bow of the Titanic, about 435 ...
Of the 12.5 million tons of Allied shipping destroyed in World War I, over 8 million tons, two-thirds of the total, had been sunk in the waters of the Atlantic war zone. [29] Of the 178 U-boats destroyed during the war, 153 had been from the Atlantic forces, 77 from the much larger High Seas Flotillas and 76 from the much smaller Flanders force.
The War Shipping Administration ( WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely ...
BETASOM (an Italian language acronym of Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili) [a] was a submarine base established at Bordeaux, France by the Regia Marina Italiana during World War II. From this base, Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from 1940 to 1943 as part of the Axis anti-shipping campaign against the Allies .
Description. Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]