Operation Kinetic (other)
Operation Kinetic may refer to * A Royal Navy operation during the Battle of Audierne Bay The Battle of the Audierne Bay was an engagement between Kriegsmarine, German and Allied powers of World War II, Allied naval flotillas that took place on 23 August 1944, during World War II. Three Allied warships, which had already established ..., on the French Atlantic coast in 1944 * Operation Kinetic (1999), a Canadian Army action in the Kosovo conflict in 1999 {{disambiguation, type=military ...
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Battle Of Audierne Bay
The Battle of the Audierne Bay was an engagement between Kriegsmarine, German and Allied powers of World War II, Allied naval flotillas that took place on 23 August 1944, during World War II. Three Allied warships, which had already established control off the coast of Brittany and were lurking off Audierne south of the invested fortress of Brest, intercepted and sank eight German vessels of an armed convoy. This was the conclusion of Operation ''Kinetic''; an allied plan to intercept shipping and hinder Germans besieged at Brest. Background By 11 August, the Operation Lüttich, Mortain counter-offensive had ground to a halt. To the east, US forces took Argentan on 13 August while British and Canadian forces closed in toward Falaise, Calvados, Falaise from the north, thus initiating the drive to encircle and destroy two German armies inside the Falaise Pocket. As the siege of the Breton ports continued, the focus of the war was quickly shifting further east.German pg. 161 Opera ...
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