Battle of Ushant (1944)
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The Battle of Ushant, also known as the Battle of Brittany, occurred on the early morning of 9 June 1944 and was an engagement between German and Allied destroyer flotillas off the coast of Brittany.
Crew members of HMS Tartar display their torn White Ensign
Z32 wrecked on the Île-de-Batz
Type 1936A destroyer
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The Type 1936A destroyers, also known as the Z23 class, were a group of fifteen destroyers built for the Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine from 1938 to 1943. They were known to the Allies as the Narvik clas
Battle of Ushant (1944)
…where she was wrecked. On 6 June 1944, the day of the first landings in Normandy, the remnants of the German 8th destroyer flotilla, consisting of the Type 36A Z24 and Z32, and the ZH1 (formerly the Dutch destroyer Gerard Callenburgh) were ordered by Vizeadmiral Theodor Krancke to sail from the Gironde estuary…
Z39 in September 1945
American ship recognition drawing
Narvik-class destroyer, starboard view, 1941