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Book Synopsis The Attack on St. Nazaire by : Robert Edward Dudley Ryder
Download or read book The Attack on St. Nazaire written by Robert Edward Dudley Ryder and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søgeord: Angrebsplan, ubådsbase ; Materiel, udstyr ; Commandoangreb, raid ; Kystangreb, detaljer ; Krigserfaringer.
Book Synopsis The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942, Etc by : Robert Edward Dudley RYDER
Download or read book The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942, Etc written by Robert Edward Dudley RYDER and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Admiralty. Naval Staff. Training and Staff Duties Division (Historical Section) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :23 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (688 download)
Book Synopsis The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942 by : Admiralty. Naval Staff. Training and Staff Duties Division (Historical Section)
Download or read book The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942 written by Admiralty. Naval Staff. Training and Staff Duties Division (Historical Section) and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942 by : Great Britain. Naval Staff. Historical Section
Download or read book The Attack on St. Nazaire, 28th March, 1942 written by Great Britain. Naval Staff. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Raid on St. Nazaire by : Andy Ryan
Download or read book The Raid on St. Nazaire written by Andy Ryan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During WW2, St. Nazaire was the most strategically important naval facility in the whole of occupied Europe. It was vital to the Nazi war effort because it was the only place outside Germany where the mighty Tirpitz battleship could be repaired and refitted. Having such a base meant that this most powerful of warships could be unleashed into the North Atlantic to attack the vulnerable allied supply lines and win the war for the Nazis. Central to the drama was the enormous 'Normandie' dry dock. If the Germans could make use of the dock to repair and refit Tirpitz, then the whole balance of the war would be tipped in their favour. The Germans knew this and the British knew it too. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was determined that the Normandie dock be put out of commission. The plan was audacious and desperate in equal measure. No-one believed it could possibly work, yet the situation was so critical that it was put into effect.... On the night of 28th of March 1942 a small flotilla of mostly wooden boats sailed into the heavily defended Loire estuary to begin what was to become known as 'the greatest raid of all'.........Andy Ryan, author of 'Bravo Ten' recounts the extraordinary story of this most momentous of military operations and places the reader in the thick of the action............'The Raid on St. Nazaire' is the third in the 'They Who Dared' series by Andy Ryan.
Book Synopsis Into the Jaws of Death by : Robert Lyman
Download or read book Into the Jaws of Death written by Robert Lyman and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the night of March 28, 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Second World War. The plan is simple: to drive an old destroyer, packed with three tons of explosives, at full speed into the outer gate of the Normandie dock. The aim is to destroy the base from which the formidable battleship Tirpitz would be able to devastate the convoys supplying Britain from the United States. "Operation Chariot" was to be dramatically successful, but at a great cost. Fewer than half the men who went on the mission returned. In recognition of their valor, eighty-nine decorations were awarded, including five Victoria Crosses. Into the Jaws of Death is the true story of how the decisive courage of a small group of men changed the course of the war.
Book Synopsis St Nazaire Raid, 1942 by : Stephen Wynn
Download or read book St Nazaire Raid, 1942 written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and British Commando units. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and the Atlantic Ocean, has a dry dock that was capable of accommodating some of Germany’s biggest naval vessels, such as the Bismarck, or the Tirpitz. By putting the port out of action, any repairs or maintenance work that needed to be carried out would instead have to be undertaken back home at the German port of Bremerhaven. To do this, the German vessels would either have to navigate the waters of the English Channel or the North Sea, with both journeys potentially bringing them to the attention of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy. A raiding force of 612 officers and men were assembled and dispatched from Falmouth to carry out the raid, sailing on board the obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, along with 18 Motor Launches. The idea was to ram the destroyer in to the outer gates of the dry dock at St Nazaire and put it out of action for as long as possible. The raid was a success, but came at a price: of those who set out, 169 were killed whilst a further 215 were captured. Only 3 Motor Launches and 228 men escaped and made the return journey back to the UK. Many brave men gave it their all during the action at St Nazaire, to such an extent that 89 of those who took part in the raid were awarded decorations for bravery, including 5 who were awarded the Victoria Cross.
Book Synopsis Operation Chariot by : Jean-Charles Stasi
Download or read book Operation Chariot written by Jean-Charles Stasi and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the World War II British amphibious attack on a dry dock in the German-occupied French town. At the beginning of 1942, the prospect of Germany’s Tirpitz, the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy, patrolling the Atlantic posed a huge threat to the convoys that were the lifeline for Britain. Bombing raids to destroy the ship failed. A more radical plan was conceived to destroy the dry-dock facility at St Nazaire on the French Atlantic coast. Without the use of the only suitable base for the ship, the threat would be neutralized. The plan was to ram the entrance gates with a ship packed with explosives on a delayed fuse. A motorboat armed with torpedoes would fire at the inner gate causing further damage to submarine pens. The troops and crew would then destroy as many dockyard targets as they could and withdraw in fast motor launches that had followed them in. All this was to be achieved under cover of an air raid. HMS Campbeltown, a U.S. lend-lease destroyer, was chosen for the task. On the night of March 27, the raid commenced. The Campbeltown succeeded in lodging its bows in the outer gates. The fuses detonated the explosives in its hold the following day. The dock gates were destroyed. The cost to the Allies was high, but the Tirpitz was never able to leave Norwegian waters. This volume in the Casemate Illustrated series gives a clear overview of the planning and execution of the raid and its aftermath, accompanied by 125 photographs and images, including color profiles and maps.
Book Synopsis Storming St. Nazaire by : James Dorrian
Download or read book Storming St. Nazaire written by James Dorrian and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII history examines an early British commando raid on Nazi occupied France through extensive interviews with survivors from both sides. On March 28th, 1942, a combined force of British Commandos and Royal Navy disembarked for the Atlantic coast of Nazi-occupied France. Their mission, Operation Chariot, was a daring amphibious attack on a fortified drydock in the port of Saint-Nazaire. The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown was packed with delayed-action explosives and rammed into the gates of Normandie Dock. Though the dock was destroyed, the underequipped raiding party faced an overwhelming counter-attack. Though the St. Nazaire raid was a significant event in the evolution of special warfare tactics, it has not been studied in detail. Historian James Dorrian draws on interviews with more than a hundred survivors, both British and German, to present this remarkable account. Storming St. Nazaire covers all aspects of the engagement, including the final ironic incident that resulted in more German casualties than the main battle itself.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Raid by : Giles Whittell
Download or read book The Greatest Raid written by Giles Whittell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times 'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph _________________________________ FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF SPIES: A dramatic and colourful new account of the most daring British commando raid of World War Two In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertook "the greatest raid of all", turning an old destroyer into a live bomb and using it to ram the gates of a Nazi stronghold. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded -- more than in any similar operation. Drawing on official documents, interviews, unknown accounts and the astonished reactions of French civilians and German forces, The Greatest Raid recreates in cinematic detail the hours in which the "Charioteers" fought and died, from Lt Gerard Brett, the curator at the V & A, to "Bertie" Burtinshaw, who went into battle humming There'll Always be an England, and from Lt Stuart Chant, who set the fuses with 90 seconds to escape, to the epic solo reconnaissance of the legendary Times journalist Capt Micky Burn. Unearthing the untold human stories of Operation Chariot, Bridge of Spies author Giles Whittell reveals it to be a fundamentally misconceived raid whose impact and legacy was secured by astonishing bravery. _________________________________ 'Enthralling . . . the heroism on display that night was unsurpassed, and Whittell is right to call his book The Greatest Raid' Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday 'A compelling page-turner, the work of a master storyteller. The drama of the March 1942 operation is cinematic in its sweep and detail -- and Whittell's detective work on the real reasons for the raid is extraordinary. Beautifully written' Matthew d'Ancona
Book Synopsis The War at Sea, 1939-1945 by : Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Download or read book The War at Sea, 1939-1945 written by Stephen Wentworth Roskill and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Air Force Combat Units of World War II by : Maurer Maurer
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Nazaire 1942 written by Ken Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated examination of the British raid on the port of St Nazaire: one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base, contained the massive 'Normandie' dock, the only facility on the Atlantic coast large enough to accommodate the German pocket battleship Tirpitz. This book tells the story of the raid that denied the use of the dock to the Tirpitz, the sister ship of the Bismarck, and constituted a crucial victory for the British Combined Operations in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Cross Channel Attack by : Gordon A. Harrison
Download or read book Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by BDD Promotional Books Company. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
Download or read book St Nazaire 1942 written by Ken Ford and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "The Attack on St. Nazaire, 1942." by : Charles M. Forbes (Admiral)
Download or read book "The Attack on St. Nazaire, 1942." written by Charles M. Forbes (Admiral) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Attack on St. Nazaire by : Robert Edward Dudley Ryder
Download or read book The Attack on St. Nazaire written by Robert Edward Dudley Ryder and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søgeord: Angrebsplan, ubådsbase ; Materiel, udstyr ; Commandoangreb, raid ; Kystangreb, detaljer ; Krigserfaringer.
