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This week in the War, 23–29 March 1942: The Saint-Nazaire raid

This week in the war, on 26 March 1942, a force of British commandos left Falmouth in Cornwall on board a flotilla of destroyers and motor-torpedo boats heading for the German naval base at Saint-Nazaire on the Loire estuary on … Continue reading

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