Event    From 1944  To 1944

Operation Overlord

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Belgium, France, Netherlands, USA

The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Operation Overlord

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D-Day Tree

These 4 plaques, each about 7" (we didn't actually measure them) are laid int...

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Dwight D Eisenhower

The United States of America recognizes the selfless service and manifold con...

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Operation Torch & Operation Overlord

Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...

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Other Subjects

J. F. Nott

J. F. Nott

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Farquar Shaw

Private Farquar Shaw

The Highland regiment, the Black Watch, had been marched down from Scotland to Finchley where, hearing rumours that they were to be sent to fight in America, about 100 soldiers went absent without ...

Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Scotland

1 memorial
Victor J. Whitaker

Victor J. Whitaker

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
N. J. Smith

N. J. Smith

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial

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Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB

Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB

Naval officer.  Born Aberdeenshire.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death.  75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.  

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial