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    The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France...
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    opens with the British raid on St. Nazaire. Cyllage City from the Game Pokémon X & Y is based on Saint-Nazaire. Saint-Nazaire is the title of a song from...
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    became one of the most famous of these ships when she was used in the St Nazaire Raid in 1942. USS Buchanan was a Wickes-class destroyer, ordered from the...
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    number 6 Troop, No. 2 Commando, he took part in Operation Chariot, the St. Nazaire Raid, his own 6 Troop contributing 29 men to the overall total of 264 Army...
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    Louis Joubert Lock (category Saint-Nazaire)
    resulted in it becoming the main target of the St. Nazaire Raid; the 1942 British Army Commando raid successfully prevented German battleships, such...
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    related to Base sous-marine de Saint-Nazaire. Lorient Submarine Base St Nazaire Raid "M 19 mortar, U-boat base". Lars Hellwinkel: Hitler's Gate to the Atlantic...
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    and served as HMS Campbeltown (I42). She was destroyed during the St. Nazaire Raid: at 1:34 on 28 March 1942, loaded with four tons of amatol explosive...
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  • unit in the St Nazaire Raid and suffered heavy casualties. Those who made it back from St Nazaire rejoined the few who had not gone on the raid, and the...
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  • national to participate in the Lord Mountbatten-led British Commandos raid on St. Nazaire, intended to deny the Tirpitz any base on the Atlantic Ocean. Couraud...
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  • War. As a captain in No.2 Commando, Roy led an assault troop in the St. Nazaire Raid in March 1942. Donald William Roy was born into an upper middle class...
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  • explosive, rammed and destroyed a strategically important dry dock in St Nazaire. The sinking of German battleship Scharnhorst by an Allied force that...
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  • of No. 1 Commando. The St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) was a seaborne attack on the heavily defended docks of Saint-Nazaire in occupied France on the...
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  • of the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement and was expended in the St Nazaire Raid in 1942. HMS Campbeltown was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1987, decommissioned...
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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
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  • took part in the original raid), Holt and the British force are heading to the vital submarine pens at German-held St. Nazaire. They approach the port aboard...
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  • Naval Volunteer Reserve officer who played a decisive role during the St. Nazaire Raid in 1942 where he commanded a Motor Torpedo Boat. Captured after his...
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  • dock in France. The final mission is based on HMS Campbeltown and the St Nazaire Raid. The title is a reference to the old proverb "Never look a gift horse...
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  • Operation Source St Nazaire Raid Battle of Tamai Battle of Tel el-Kebir Battle of the Tugela Heights Umbeyla Campaign War of the Golden Stool Zeebrugge Raid...
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  • British Commando troops from the St. Nazaire Raid were taken there, then sent on to other camps in Germany. St. Nazaire Raid POW camps in France Story of...
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    off air-raid warnings to affect civilian morale: four major air-raids in August involved hundreds of bombers, in the same month 1,062 small raids were made...
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    the German frontier, they were often harried by air attacks and bombing raids by aircraft of the Allied air forces, inflicting casualties and destroying...
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  • bear the name, which was pivotal in the St Nazaire raid, a major commando attack on the occupied port of St Nazaire and the destruction of its dry dock in...
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    attempted in 1942. This was the only feasible role for her, since the St Nazaire Raid had made operations against the Atlantic convoy lanes too risky. Tirpitz...
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    lynchpin of the St Nazaire Raid in 1942, was awarded the VC, recognized as being: For great gallantry and determination in the attack on St. Nazaire in command...
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  • which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. On 28 March 1942, in the St. Nazaire Raid, France, Savage, who was a gun-layer of a pom-pom in MGB 314, engaged...
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    operation of the Holocaust. In order to reduce resistance, the ghetto would be raided without warning, usually in the early morning, and the extent of the operation...
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    a collision in the Firth of Clyde. Ryder, now a commander, led the St Nazaire Raid, codenamed Operation Chariot, on 28 March 1942. This was a successful...
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    allowing the Allied air forces to attack. They launched devastating bombing raids on the German supply points in their rear, and P-47 Thunderbolts started...
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    operational or only partially mobile in early June 1944. Alarmed by the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe in 1942, Hitler ordered the construction of fortifications...
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    shipping lanes and enabling amphibious operations across the globe; the St Nazaire Raid saw five Victoria Crosses awarded. The Battle of the Mediterranean...
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