HMCS Kitchener (K225)

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HMCS Kitchener (pennant number K225) was one of 10 revised Flower class corvettes built in 1942 for the Royal Canadian Navy.

She was dubbed "HMCS Hollywood" in she was featured in the film Corvette K-225, but she was also a veteran of the C-5 Group in the North Atlantic, also known as "The Barber Pole Brigade." Battle honours include the Battle of the St. Lawrence, Operation Torch, and Operation Neptune, She was the only Canadian corvette to participate in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, escorting the second wave of infantry troops to Omaha Beach, then assigned as picket ship for the USS Augusta ferrying General Omar Bradley. Afterwards, she was based at Milford Haven, Wales, and spent the rest of the war escorting supply ships to Europe.