Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te whakangungu mo nga tau maha puta noa i te United Kingdom me te iwa marama i noho ki Northern Ireland, i tae atu te brigade ki France, me te toenga o te 59th Division, i te mutunga o Pipiri 1944 hei waahanga o te Operation Overlord ka uru ki te British Army Tuarua. I whawhai te piritiata i roto i te taumahatanga taumaha
nga pakanga ki te hopu i Caen, ina koa i te Operation Charnwood me te Pakanga Tuarua o te Odon, e mohiotia ana ko Operation Pomegranate. I te timatanga o Akuhata, i te whiti o te Awa Orne i te 176th Infantry Brigade, i tautokohia e nga tanki Churchill o 107 RAC o 34 Tank Brigade, i whai waahi nui (me te whakamoemiti mai i te GOC Major-General Lewis Lyne), a Kapene David Auldjo Jamieson, tama a Sir Archibald Jamieson, o te 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment i whakawhiwhia ki te Victoria Cross mo tona maia nui, rangatira me te marino i raro i te ahi me te mea i whara. Ko ia te tuatahi, ko ia anake hoki te VC i whakawhiwhia ki te parirau me te wehenga puta noa i te pakanga. I ora ia i ona whara ka noho tonu ia ki te ope taua i muri o te pakanga i reira ka eke ia ki te taumata o te rangatira. I te whitinga, he nui nga mate i pa ki te pereti, me te 7th Royal Norfolks e mau ana i te 42 i mate, 111 i whara, 73 i ngaro, mo te katoa o te 226 nga mate, 6th North Staffords he 76 nga mate me te 7th South Staffords i ngaro i tana CO, Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Bullock, i mate i te mahi.