(4/5) Dangerous Missions St Nazaire

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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[riotagus]

They were very brave men, and they knew what to do.

[bookteafun]

Redreeper, u are right, how could I leave America out of that list..!

[redreaper2020]

@bookteafun how bloody well untrue!!

Britain, Western Europe, AND America.

[seal201111]

the kind of bravery that rewrites the rules of warfare

[bookteafun]

And yet Britain has been surrendered with out a shot being fired to islamics and zionists... these boys would be rolling in their graves...

Seems like the best genetics of Britain were killed back in those days, where are the real men who will stand up for Britain now? Only politically correct pencil necked limp wristed geeks left... same with all of Western Europe.

[Cokecakepopcorn]

@TrueSkeptic77 Yes:( they died for nothing, the nazis won the war...oh wait..no the ones that died helped to win the war-_- no matter the current state of England, they didn't fight for nothing, idiot.

[TrueSkeptic77]

They died for nothing. Now england is under islam control.

[janak19771977]

the french army had a similar weapon as well....light machinegun which looked like cros between bren and bar.

if iam not mistaken polish army used bars as well and production of brens continued in czechslwakia for the ss primarely as well

but it looks a lot like bar i must say

[thewwiiguy]

looks like it could be the ZB vz. 26

[ADVtheMISSIONARY]

the Polish had BAR's before the War started the Germans converted them to 8mmMauser and used them