What the records say
- When
- 5 Jun 1944 – 7 Jun 1944
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 49.18° N, 0.36° W
- Description
- 1944 airborne operation during World War II
- War
- World War II
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Operation Tonga
Airborne operation during the Second World War
Operation Tonga was the codename given to the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Tonga : débarquements de troupes aéroportées britanniques sur le flanc est du canal de Caen à la mer et à Ranville”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Операция "Тонга"”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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