HMS Rodney Shells Alderney (1944) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Long-range artillery on the German-occupied island of Alderney was disrupting Allied operations off the northwest corner of the Cotentin Peninsula after the landings in Normandy. Rodney was tasked to eliminate the problem and bombarded Batterie Blücher on 12 August, taking up a position on the other side of the Cap de la Hague to avoid return fire. She fired 75 sixteen-inch shells at the artillery position, believing that three of the four guns had