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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello and welcome to another episode of Battleground 44 with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Today we're going to concentrate on questions and the first one is from Christopher Curtis.

And he writes, I'm wondering if Patrick

Bishop and Saul David might be interested in presenting a definitive podcast, which would each

probably require three episodes on the two very different subjects below. The raid on San Nazaire,

1942, otherwise known as Operation Chariot, and the 30th Assault Unit, 30AU. What do you know about

those two subjects, Patrick? I think we all know a little bit about the Raid on San Nazezer,

don't we? I mean, yeah, that's pretty famous, probably a little bit less so about 30th

assault unit. Yeah, well, Raid onon Sanders there is very interesting part of the kind of

British War story because it was really a morale boosting thing more than anything else. It was,

of course, Mountbatten's first foray into his new job as head of combined operations. And it was,

you know, it was a great success. They blew up the dock there, which was

meant to be the only place on the Atlantic coast where the turpets could be refitted and

basically repaired or whatever if it actually made it out into the Atlantic. So that was the

ostensible objective of the raid, but I think at least

equally important was the effect it was going to have on British morale. Things were pretty

grim in those dark days of the spring of 1942, even though the Americans were in the war.

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