Operation Windsor

When

4 Jul 1944 – 5 Jul 1944

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

49.19° N, 0.45° W

Description

1944 pperation of World War II

1944 Canadian operation in Normandy during WWII

Operation Windsor (4–5 July 1944), was a Canadian attack of the Battle of Normandy during the Second World War. The attack was undertaken by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division to take Carpiquet and the adjacent airfield from troops of the 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitler Jugend of Panzergruppe West.

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