Others Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:43:54 +0000 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:43:54 +0000 Whitebeam Battlefield Research Forum http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/forums/others.46/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:30:01 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/one-of-the-terrible-twins.197/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/one-of-the-terrible-twins.197/ invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) Pat Curran
As some of you may know, one of the naval units which was assigned to 'Bombardment Force A' at Utah Beach was the Royal Netherlands Navy sloop HNMS 'Soemba'. This little ship, along with her sister, HNMS 'Flores' earned a remarkable reputation for gunnery accuracy during the invasion of Sicily the previous year. It was this reputation which earned the two sisters the title 'The Terrible Twins' by their admiring Royal Navy colleagues and placed HNMS Soemba in the thick of...

One of 'The Terrible Twins'?]]> 31 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:43:30 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/hnoms-glaisdale-juno-beach.199/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/hnoms-glaisdale-juno-beach.199/ invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) Pat Curran
I came across some more naval footage on the British Pathe site which shows two identifiable vessels off what may be Juno Beach. The footage is located here, titled 'Ships at Sea 1944' and has the BP Film ID No. 1941.02.

The first vessel is the Norwegian (ex Royal Navy) Hunt (Type III) Class Destroyer 'HNoMS Glaisdale'. I had to stitch stills 28 and 31 together to get the Norwegian flag and her number...

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