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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Predicate Object
instanceOf armoured offensive
military operation
alliance Allies
alsoKnownAs Goodwood
belligerent Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
campaign Normandy campaign
cityNear Caen
codename Goodwood
commander Brian Horrocks
Miles Dempsey
Richard O’Connor
conflict 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 NERFINISHED
Heinrich Eberbach NERFINISHED
Sepp Dietrich
opposingForceType German armoured and infantry divisions
partOf Battle of Normandy
planningNation United Kingdom NERFINISHED
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 of World War II
year 1944

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Operation Goodwood
Operation Goodwood
alsoKnownAs
Operation Goodwood
codename

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