Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 13 o Pipiri 1944, ko te nuinga o te 49th Division, i muri i te rua tau neke atu o te whakangungu, i eke ki Normandy hei waahanga o te Operation Overlord. I tae wawe te wehenga ki te uru atu ki te Pakanga o Villers-Bocage, i reira i raru ai te wehenga o te 7 o nga wehenga o te wehenga, engari i uru atu ki nga whakamatautau maha ki te
ka hopu i te pa o Kaena. I muri i te taunga, i uru noa te wehenga ki nga pakanga iti-iti, ina koa i te 16 o Pipiri i te taha o Tilly-sur-Seulles, i reira te 6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, o te 147th Brigade, i mate te 230 - 30% o tana kaha whakaturanga pakanga - i roto i te pakanga e rua-ra i a ia e ngana ana ki te hopu i a Le Parc de Boislonde. I te mutunga ka riro te tūranga i te 7 o nga Battalion, Dukes, i raro i te Lieutenant Colonel John Wileey. Ko te mahi nui tuatahi a te 49th hei wehenga i puta i te Operation Martlet, te waahanga tuatahi o te Operation Epsom, te ngana a Ingarangi ki te hopu i Caen. Ahakoa ko te Tiamana Tiamana Sir Richard O'Connor's VIII Corps te tino kaha, ko te XXX Corps, me te 49th Division i raro i te mana, ko te tiaki i te taha matau o te VIII Corps ma te hopu i te Rauray.