Bloody Bognor

Prior to the invasion the pier at Bognor Regis had been redesignated HMS Patricia, a naval spotting station used to coordinate Home Fleet actions in the Channel. A concerted German attack was launched to knock out the pier and assist …

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Prior to the invasion the pier at Bognor Regis had been redesignated HMS Patricia, a naval spotting station used to coordinate Home Fleet actions in the Channel. A concerted German attack was launched to knock out the pier and assist the Kriegsmarine in their desperate fight in the waters around Portsmouth. lnstead of a costly frontal assault, German troops of the 9th Army landed to the west of Bognor and encircled the town, striking British positions from the rear. Under the leadership of Captain Thomas Waring the defenders desperately struggled to adjust their defensive positions to an attack from the direction they had least expected. The fighting was ferocious with losses on both sides. Captain Waring himself was posthumously awarded the VC for attempting to recover a wounded British sapper under enemy fire.

Bognor Regis, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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