Goodwood

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Goodwood is the codename for Operation Goodwood, a major British armoured offensive conducted during the Battle of Normandy in World War II.

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Goodwood canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armoured offensive
military operation
alliance Allies
alsoKnownAs Goodwood
belligerent Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
campaign Battle of Normandy
surface form: Normandy campaign
cityNear Caen
codename Goodwood self-linksurface differs
commander Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
surface form: Brian Horrocks

Miles Dempsey
Richard O'Connor
surface form: Richard O’Connor
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
countryWhereOccurred France
endDate 1944-07-20
followedBy Operation Bluecoat
Operation Cobra
front eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead
frontlineSector Orne River bridgehead east of Caen
location France
Normandy
notableFeature one of the largest British armoured attacks of World War II
notableOutcome heavy British tank losses
limited territorial gains east of Caen
objective breakout east of Caen
destroy German armoured forces east of Caen
opposingAlliance Axis
opposingCommander Hans von Luck
Heinrich Eberbach
Sepp Dietrich
opposingForceType German armoured and infantry divisions
partOf Battle of Normandy
planningNation United Kingdom
precededBy Battle for Caen
primaryForceType armoured divisions
result operational British success in fixing German armour
tactical German defensive success
scale corps-level offensive
startDate 1944-07-18
strategicContext Allied attempt to break German defensive lines in Normandy
support artillery preparation
heavy Allied air bombardment
theatre Western Front
surface form: Western Front of World War II
year 1944

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Goodwood codename Goodwood self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Operation Goodwood
Goodwood alsoKnownAs Goodwood
subject surface form: Operation Goodwood