This is a 2007 documentary on the famous 1942 raid by the British Commando troops on the St. Nazaire surface and submarine base on France's Atlantic coast with the goal of damaging the docks and thus preventing the brand-new German battleship Tirpitz from having a repair base available on the Atlantic coast.
Narrated by Jeremy Clarkson and featuring numerous interviews with survivors of the raid.
Thought it would be interesting for WW2 enthusiasts like myself here, and for players interested to know more about the Commandos, part of the British doctrinal units in CoH2.
"The Greatest Raid of All" - Commandos documentary
5 Feb 2017, 18:09 PM
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If you're interested, the Army Commandos in WWII were an all-arms unit. i.e. they sucked in the best from all army units, prior to the Airborne contingents. As such, they were highly controversial for senior UK Generals, who regarded the Commandos as a drain of the best soldiers from ordinary infantry battalions.(vide the Alanbrooke Diaries). If you read about how few men in an ordinary platoon motivate the rest, you can see why. (vide 'With the Jocks' by Peter White)
(The Royal Marine Commandos came later in the war, and were regarded as slightly inferior by the Army Commandos, because they were not all handpicked volunteers in the same way).
As in many things, Clarkson exaggerates.
Quite possibly, the "Greatest Raid of them all" were the Cockleshell Heroes, or better, the Trondheim Raid, bcs at least with the latter, most of them returned to UK alive, ready to fight again (vide 'March Past' by Lord Lovat....then again, you should look at the Bruneval Raid - the radar snatch - but they were Paras, not Commandos.
(The Royal Marine Commandos came later in the war, and were regarded as slightly inferior by the Army Commandos, because they were not all handpicked volunteers in the same way).
As in many things, Clarkson exaggerates.
Quite possibly, the "Greatest Raid of them all" were the Cockleshell Heroes, or better, the Trondheim Raid, bcs at least with the latter, most of them returned to UK alive, ready to fight again (vide 'March Past' by Lord Lovat....then again, you should look at the Bruneval Raid - the radar snatch - but they were Paras, not Commandos.
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