Operation Details

Capital (ii)

'Capital' (ii) was British convoy operation to move two British merchant vessels (7,131-ton Fort Carlton and 7,149-ton Fort Lennox) and four US merchant vessels (7,176-ton Emma Willard, 7,176-ton Henry Ward Beecher, 7,207-ton James W. Johnson and 7,176-ton Janet Lord Roper) from Naples in Italy to Palermo in Sicily (6 June 1944).

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The convoy’s ships had delivered stores and supplies for Lieutenant General Mark W, Clark’s US 5th Army as it took Rome after breaking out from its Cassino through the 'Führer-Senger-Linie' to link with the 'Buffalo' break-out of its US VI Corps subsidiary, commanded by Major General Lucian K. Truscott, from its 'Shingle' lodgement.

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