Britain's Most Daring WW2 Raid
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Its definitely up there in top 3 (from Britain). But I would disagree its no. 1...the raid at St. Nazaire dockyard just had more raw craziness/daring in it imo.
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You guys should try and watch this. WWI restored and edited into colour. It is amazing. So sad as it makes it more real.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/
It is probably still on BBC IPlayer for those in the UK !
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/
It is probably still on BBC IPlayer for those in the UK !
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Actually, most military historian would consider St Nazaire raid a copy of Zeebrugge Raid in WW1, the planning is similar but the outcome is very different.
As for the greatest or most daring raid, for me personally, it is not the big name operation, like St Nazaire or Operation Market Garden, Dambuster Raid or even Crete, look at the formation of British SAS and their raid in North Africa. Those unknown raid is a lot more daring than St Nazaire or Dambuster alike. That is the reason why it made into the motto of the SAS
"Who Dares, Win"
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Yah well when we reduce scale of people involved/operation size...yes many "higher guts intensity" episodes are there for sure. SAS raids in desert of those airbases is a very good example indeed.
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