Le Portel
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Le Portel is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 4 kilometres southwest of Boulogne town centre.
Fort de l'Heurt
Le Portel Plage
Statue of the Madonna
The beach and in the distance, Fort de l'Heurt
Operation Cockade
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Operation Cockade was a series of deception operations designed to alleviate German pressure on Allied operations in Sicily and on the Soviets on the Eastern Front by feinting various attacks into Wes
Le Portel
…the ship Belle Poule, that brought back the remains of Napoleon. During the Second World War, on 8 and 9 September 1943, Le Portel suffered as part of Operation Cockade, a diversionary manoeuvre by the Allies to fool the Germans into believing the possibility of a landing on the English Channel. The bombings, which…
54th LAA Bofors during Exercise Harlequin, 11 September 1943