Le Havre was finally liberated on 12 September but at appalling cost. 5000 people had died, 12,500 buildings had been destroyed, the port was devastated (partly by departing Germans) and some 350 wrecks clogged the sea bed. Hundreds of years of history, of memories, destroyed. The price of freedom.
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Operation Astonia was the codename for an Allied attack on the German-held Channel port of Le Havre in France, during the Second World War.
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Great damage was done to the docks at Le Havre by heavy bombers of the RAF. Heavy bombs destroyed E-boat pens, where the German Navy had one of their largest E- ...
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The bombings also destroyed 96% of Tilly-la-Campagne (Calvados), 95% of Vire (Calvados), 88% of Villers-Bocage (Calvados), 82% of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), 77% ...
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The impact of British and American bombing on Allied civil- ians, it suggests, remains a relatively under-researched area in the study of the Second World War.
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