The two submarines are 20 miles from the occupied French coast as of Jat noon. The Americans, for their part, did not wish to organize equivalent missions for their own area of responsibility. As they leave England, the Allied Amphibious Airborne Assault is scheduled to begin June 5, 1944. Their mission is to mark the access routes of the Allied Armada. This is the triggering of the operation called “Gambit”. Operation Gambit: Crossing the Channel by two midget submarines of the Royal Navy from June 4th to 6th, 1944.įor a handful of British Royal Navy sailors, Operation Overlord has already begun as early as Jat 9:30 pm in England: two “X” class submarines (the X20 commanded by Lieutenant Kenneth Hudspeth and X23 at the orders of Lieutenant George Honor) cast off after being towed by two trawlers, Darthema and Sapper.
Operation Gambit during the Normandy landings Operation Neptune – D-Day – June 6th, 1944
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