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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Angus on February 07, 2009, 03:31:19 AM
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Stumbled across this on youtube. While I knew about this raid, I had never perceived how completely insane it was. A very cool watch. Part I and then follow up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgF0R4dhUqk
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Is this the raid were the British rammed a sub pen or something like that with an old Land Lease WW1 DD? Recall reading a book about it when I was a kid.
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this rocked, i was gonna go to sleep and i stayed up for the entire hour of it, thank you :salute
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It is well worth watching all 6 parts of this .
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Is this the raid were the British rammed a sub pen or something like that with an old Land Lease WW1 DD? Recall reading a book about it when I was a kid.
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Yes it is the attack on St Nazaire. It was a dry dock big enough to hold the German BBs. The destroyer was HMS Campbeltown, ex USS Buchanan (DD131), a Town class. It was one of the 50 transferred to the Brits in exchange for bases on British soil. For the attack on St Nazaire she was modded to resemble a German Mowe class destroyer.
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I read about this many years back. What baffled me when I looked at the documentary was how many things could have gone wrong, as well as the balls those guys had. Incredible.
Clarkson mentions his father-in-law who was a VC winner at Arnhem. There is a documentary about it, but that one I have not found yet.
One fine program IMHO.
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Great Find !
Courage is the understatement in this 1 hour Series...
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Amazing story and a great narrator to boot. :salute
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I watched the entire series - well worth it - just amazing :salute
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The "Great" in Great Britian is there for a reason.