the French coast at 5:30 June 6, 1944.

For the next five weeks, the Belfast was practically still in operation, firing thousands of bullets from its batteries of 100 and 152 mm, in support of the movements of the infantry to the front as they moved inland. The last shot was fired on July 8 during the ‘Operation Charnwood, the battle for the capture of Caen, in which, along with the battleship HMS Rodney and the ironclad gunboat HMS Roberts had the task of breaking down the German positions.

Two days later he returned to Devonport for a short refueling before moving into the Pacific, where he joined to ‘Operation Zipper, initially intended to drive out the Japanese from British Malaya, but became a rescue operation after the surrender ofJapan.

During the last days of the war in Europe the ship, stationed in the North Sea, ended up in the crosshairs of a German submarine without being able to locate it. The enemy commander, to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, as the war was winding down, he decided to save the ship and not to open fire.

After the war

The Belfast he served in the Korean War, in support of landing forces of the United Nations. In July 1952 it was hit by shots of a North Korean battery, which killed one man and injured four others.

The Belfast was modernized between January 1956 and May 1959. All anti-aircraft weapons (ie guns from 100 and 40 mm) were removed and replaced with more modern weapons of the same caliber. Even all the