(3/6) The Greatest Raid of All World War II

The St. Nazaire Raid (also called Operation Chariot) was a successful British seaborne attack on the heavily defended docks of St. Nazaire in occupied France on the night of March 28, 1942 during World War II. The operation was undertaken by Royal Navy and Army Commando units under the auspices of Louis Mountbatten's Combined Operations.

The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown commanded by Stephen Halden Beattie and accompanied by 18 shallow draft boats, rammed the St. Nazaire lock gates and was blown up, ending use of the dock. Commandos landed on the docks and destroyed other dock structures before attempting to fight their way out. All but 27 of the commandos were either killed or captured: 22 escaped back to Britain in the motor torpedo boats and 5 to the Spanish border.

The loss of St. Nazaire as a dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs to have to return to home waters.

Five Victoria crosses were awarded to men involved in the raid, which has been called The Greatest Raid of All.

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[sutonchef]

RULE BRITANNIA!  RULE!

[MegaGojira3000]

@RobertRuhi There is no more Place under your Home, british Subhuman.

[RobertRuhi]

@MegaGojira3000 You are a racist troll get back under your stone you scum

[GreywolfMiner]

The very bravest and strongest men of the battles that made up the wars of time

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

What they cound not spare a single iron made ship? don't want to sound like an A hole but at that time there where many simple fishing boads in Iceland made from iron and we would have given you them if you asked. 

[arwel63]

he meant english tons

[sheemsheem]

LOL i laughed hard at the tourist l3oat

[marjis3]

mave.foorumi.eu

[Paciat]

@WakingMajority My point was you dont need Tons of armor to get past enemy defenses. Commandos knew that.

[WakingMajority]

@Paciat Wood doesn't react well to bullets and its easier to shoot a boat then shoot a mosquito.