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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HMS Campbeltown (I42) (section The St Nazaire Raid)
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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Micky Burn (section St. Nazaire Raid)
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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Raymond Couraud (section St Nazaire Raid)
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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No. 2 Commando (section St Nazaire raid)
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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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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Thomas Frank Durrant (section St Nazaire)
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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USS Buchanan (DD-131) (section Saint-Nazaire Raid)
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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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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Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough (section St Nazaire)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Battle of Britain (section Small scale raids)
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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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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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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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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James (2006). St. Nazaire Raid Operation Chariot – Channel Ports. Pen and Sword Military. p. 211. ISBN 978-1844153343. "Saint-Nazaire Ecomuseum". Ministère...
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Operation Aerial (section St Nazaire and Nantes)
troops, civilians and equipment from Atlantic ports, particularly from St Nazaire and Nantes. On 17 June, the Luftwaffe evaded RAF fighter patrols and attacked...
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