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This is the Allied Naval Order of Battle for Operation Overlord,Normandy Landings June 6, 1944.

Western Naval Task Force

 * USS Augusta (Flagship of Rear Admiral Alan Kirk - Lt. General Omar Bradley embarked)

Force U

 * USS Bayfield, attack transport

Bombardment Force A

 * USS Nevada, BB-36, Utah Beach (damaged and beached to avoid sinking at Pearl Harbor, Nevada class, 29,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns).
 * USS Quincy (Heavy Cruiser)
 * USS Tuscaloosa
 * HMS Hawkins
 * HMS Black Prince (Light Cruiser)
 * HMS Enterprise (Light Cruiser)
 * HNLMS Soemba, Dutch gunboat
 * HMS Erebus, monitor 2 - 15 inch guns


 * USS Corry (sunk during the invasion)
 * USS Hobson
 * USS Baldwin
 * USS Forrest
 * USS Gherardi
 * USS Fitch

Bombardment Force C

 * USS Texas, BB-35, western Omaha Beach (New York class, 27,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns, Flagship of Rear Admiral C.F. Bryant) primarily in support of the US 1st Infantry Division.
 * USS Arkansas, BB-33, eastern Omaha Beach (Wyoming class, 26,100 tons, main armament: 12 - 12"/50 cal. guns) primarily in support of the US 29th Infantry Division.
 * HMS Glasgow
 * Montcalm (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard)
 * Georges Leygues (Free French)


 * USS Frankford
 * USS McCook
 * USS Carmick
 * USS Doyle
 * USS Baldwin
 * USS Harding
 * USS Satterlee
 * HMS Talybont
 * HMS Tanatside
 * USS Thomson
 * HMS Melbreak

Reserve

 * HMS Bellona

Eastern Naval Task Force

 * HMS Scylla (Admiral Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war)

Force G

 * HMS Bulolo, H.Q. ship

Bombardment Force K

 * HMS Orion
 * HMS Argonaut
 * HMS Ajax
 * HMS Emerald
 * HNLMS Flores, Dutch gunboat


 * HMS Grenville
 * HMS Ulster
 * HMS Ulysses
 * HMS Undaunted
 * HMS Undine
 * HMS Urania
 * HMS Urchin
 * HMS Ursa
 * HMS Jervis
 * HMS Cattistock
 * HMS Pytchley
 * HMS Cottesmore
 * ORP Krakowiak, (Polish, former HMS Silverton)

Bombardment Force E

 * HMS Belfast (Flagship of Rear Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton)
 * HMS Diadem


 * HMS Kempenfelt
 * HMS Faulknor
 * HMS Fury (mined 21 June and not repaired)
 * HMS Venus
 * HMS Vigilant
 * HMS Bleasdale
 * HMCS Algonquin (Canadian)
 * HMS Glaisdale
 * HMCS Sioux (Canadian)
 * HMS Stevenstone
 * La Combattante (Free French, former HMS Haldon)

Bombardment Force D

 * HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson)
 * HMS Warspite (1913, Queen Elizabeth class, 35,000 tons, main armament 8 - 15"/42 cal. guns).
 * HMS Ramillies (1915, Revenge class, 33,500 tons, main armament: 8 - 15"/42 cal. guns).
 * HMS Roberts, monitor 2 - 15 inch guns
 * HMS Arethusa
 * HMS Frobisher
 * ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)
 * HMS Danae


 * HMS Eglinton
 * HMS Kelvin
 * HMS Middleton
 * HMS Saumarez
 * HMS Scorpion
 * HMS Scourge
 * HMS Serapis
 * ORP Slazak (Polish)
 * HNoMS Stord (Norwegian)
 * HNoMS Svenner (Norwegian, hit by German torpedo and sunk off Normandy at dawn, 6 June)
 * HMS Swift (mined and sunk 24 June 1944 off Normandy)
 * HMS Verulam
 * HMS Virago

Reserve

 * HMS Rodney (1925, Nelson class, 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns).
 * HMS Sirius In reserve until June 10

Battleships
Seven battleships took part: four British and three US:
 * HMS Nelson (1925, Nelson class, 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns). Held in reserve until June 10.

Heavy Cruisers
Five heavy cruisers (main guns of 8 inches) took part, three from the United States and two from Britain

Light Cruisers
17 British light cruisers took part along with two of the Free French navy, and one of the Polish navy. All carried either 6 or 5.25 inch guns of varying numbers.


 * HMS Capetown
 * HMS Ceres (Flagship of U.S. Service Force)

Destroyers and escorts
135 ships (eighty-five British and Dominion, 39 US, 7 Free French and 7 other Allied):
 * USS Amesbury''
 * USS Barton
 * HMS Boadicea (torpedoed and sunk 13 June)
 * HMCS Cape Breton (Canadian)
 * HMCS Chaudiere (Canadian)
 * HMCS Kitchener (Canadian)
 * USS Laffey
 * USS Murphy
 * USS O'Brien
 * HMS Whimbrel
 * HMS Wrestler (damaged by a mine and not repaired)

Other warships
508 ships (352 British, 154 US and 2 other Allied): The British 9th and 159th minesweeping flotillas and U.S. 7th Minesweeping Squadron provided minesweeping protection. A distant anti-submarine screen to the operation was provided by HMS Onslow, Offa, Onslaught, Oribi, Melbreak and Brissenden. Additional protection from E-boats was provided by various Motor Gun Boat flotillas.
 * HMS Centurion, old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
 * Courbet, Free Naval French Forces, old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
 * USS Charles Carroll attack transport
 * HMCS Cowichan, Canadian minesweeper
 * HMS Durban (light cruiser used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)
 * HMS Lawford, frigate (bombed and sunk)
 * HNMLS Sumatra (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNMLS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in"Gooseberry" breakwater)

Notes and references
Category:World War II orders of battle