St. Nazaire Raid

A part from the Wochenschau shows the St. Nazaire Raid from the german side.
British Commandos with boats and a destroyer full with explosives against german 280 Naval Artillery Battalion,22 Naval Flak (AA)Battalion,a bunch of artillery and boats.

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• St.
• Nazaire
• Raid
• Commandos
• Naval
• german
• british
• artillery

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

wasnt senseless at all , the dock was destroyed when the campletown which rammed the dock gates blew up , the dock was put out of action and the tirpitz was unable to use than dock ,keeping the battleship out of the atlantic ,complete success

[CanadaUK01]

No doubt about it, if the Americans been involved in the attack, there would have been a huge Holly Wood Movie about it and how they won the whole by themselves....

[donno54]

the smug german talking before the destroyer went Booom! talking 100s of germans with it .God we british are good

[rampking1]

@eus478 Thanks for replying to TheMightoftheEnglish for me. You kept it short, kept to your point and suppled facts....not B.S.

He seems unaware of the famous channel dash of the Scharnhort and the Gneisenau.

His whole argument about a base for the Tirpitz up in smoke.

Call it for what it was, a suicide mission.

5***** for Eus478

[ArmedtotheTeethProd]

@seal201111 Thanks for that! The story of this raid always amazes me!

[seal201111]

@ArmedtotheTeethProd yes campbeltown was a vessel transfered to the royal navy through the ships for bases scheme, but it was used in the raid because it was junk, worthless and obsolescent. It had to be completetly gutted/stripped and heavily modified with double plated armour, different engine, etc. And then it was converted to make it appear like a german motor boat.

[ArmedtotheTeethProd]

Didn't the United States give/sell the Campbelltown to the United Kingdom? I just want a verification/correction, no fight/debate required.

[EcoWarriorNB]

@germaniajim exactly how did the English start this war? I think you might need to read your history.

[mattbibbey]

For you information: This complete idiot below, germaniajim, has been removed from youtube because he is clearly a total c**t!

[germaniajim]

twice in a row, the english cried for help after they started a fight, Help us america, we're getting our asses handed to us, help help , They are all wankers and cowards

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

@eus478 thats just it , the british didnt know that they wernt going to send the tirpitz out, so just in case , we took away the only shelter they could of used once out in the atlantic.

,,as it was we had already damaged the tirpitz and held up any operations by the tirpitz ,the operation succeeded were others had failed , if you were talking about dieppe id totally agree with you ,although lessons were learnt from that debacle