Assault Landings By Canadian Armoured Regiments

[Wolfkin]

Hello all!

I am back to this thread after some lengthy research with a completely updated list for Assault Landings and Non-Assault Landings. I am going to restrict this to landings by Canadian, British and U.S. Armoured Units in the MTO and ETO because those areas and units are my main interest.

The first list is for an "Assault Landing". The definition that I am using for an "Assault Landing" is one that landed on the day of the assault and not later. The second list is for a “Non-Assault Landing”. The definition that I am using for a "Non-Assault Landing" is one that landed not on the day of the assault but later. For a “Non-Assault Landing” to be valid the landing must have had to take place within three days of the day of the Assault. If more than three days than it is not a “Non-Assault Landing” but an “Embarkation”.

Many units had an “Embarkation” so it is redundant to list them all. This is why I have deleted some "Landings" from my original list because they would qualify as an "Embarkation" and not as a "Non-Assault Landing".


Assault Landings:


14th Armoured Regiment - The Calgary Tank Regiment - KOCR
-Dieppe on August 19, 1942
-Italy on September 3, 1943

12th Armoured Regiment - The Three Rivers Regiment
-Sicily on July 10, 1943

11th Armoured Regiment - The Ontario Regiment
-Italy on September 3, 1943

10th Armoured Regiment - The Fort Garry Horse
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

6th Armoured Regiment - 1st Hussars
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

27th Armoured Regiment - The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

3rd County Of London Yeomanry (As a part of the British 4th Armoured Brigade)
-Sicily on July 10, 1943
-Sicily on August 15, 1943 - A sea-borne expedition to cut roads behind enemy lines involving a Squadron (C Squadron and part of B Squadron) of 3CLY.

U.S. 70th Tank Battalion
-North Africa on November 8, 1942
-Sicily on July 10, 1943
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 191st Tank Battalion
-Italy on September 9, 1943
-Italy on January 22, 1944
-France on August 15, 1944

Staffordshire Yeomanry (As a part of the British 27th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 6, 1944
-Walchern in November 1944
-Rhine Crossing in March 1945
-Elbe Crossing in April 1945

13th/18th Hussars (As a part of the British 27th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) (As a part of the British 8th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards (As a part of the British 8th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 741st Tank Battalion
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 743rd Tank Battalion
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 745th Tank Battalion
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 746th Tank Battalion
-Normandy on June 6, 1944

U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion
-Sicily on July 10, 1943
-Italy on September 9, 1943
-France on August 15, 1944

U.S. 756th Tank Battalion
-France on August 15, 1944

44th Royal Tank Regiment (As a part of the British 4th Armoured Brigade)
-Sicily on July 10, 1943

46th Royal Tank Regiment
-Sicily on July 10, 1943
-Italy on January 22, 1944

50th Royal Tank Regiment
-Sicily on July 10, 1943

Royal Scots Greys
-Italy on September 9, 1943

Non-Assault Landings:

14th Armoured Regiment - The Calgary Tank Regiment - KOCR
-Sicily on July 13, 1943

11th Armoured Regiment - The Ontario Regiment
-Sicily on July 13, 1943

3rd County Of London Yeomanry (As a part of the British 4th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 7, 1944

Royal Scots Greys (As a part of the British 4th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 7, 1944

24th Lancers (As a part of the British 8th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 7, 1944

East Riding Yeomanry (As a part of the British 27th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 7, 1944

44th Royal Tank Regiment (As a part of the British 4th Armoured Brigade)
-Normandy on June 9, 1944

U.S. 747th Tank Battalion
-Normandy on June 7, 1944


Cheers,

Jon Fitzgerald
Calgary,AB,Canada

P.S. I would like to find some more information on the British Armoured units used in the Sicily and Italy landings. I could not find too much information on these units.