Epox

Hello and welcome back to Epox.

Over the last couple of episodes, I've talked about Special Forces raids and

once a twice before and people seem to like that, so I'm going to continue that, do a few

more of those before I move on to something entirely different.

This time I thought I would

talk about a very, very, very famous World War II raid. It's not the SAS. It's commandos,

though. It's British. Special Forces Commandos, but not actually the SAS in Europe. And among

military history people, it's very, very well known and famous, but I think among the rest of the world, it's not particularly famous.

So I hope that I'm actually bringing it to a few of you for the first time ever.

That's nice.

I'm certainly going to tell the story as though you've never heard it before.

And it's the story of the raid on a place

called San Nazaire. Okay, so let's give a bit of background before I start doing reading. I plan

to do a lot of reading this episode. Maybe the majority of it will be reading, so I've got a great

account of it, which just tells the story kind of perfectly in my opinion but I'll still

interrupt myself a bit but before I start the reading I'll give you sort of an overview

of what it is it's World War II okay we're deep in World War II Nazi occupied

France all of France is completely occupied or there's the Vichy French but

effectively France is occupied now there's a battle for the Atlantic,

who controls the Atlantic, and the Germans have got a couple, a few, a very small number

of giant battleships. The Turpitz is the big one. Another is the Shanhorst, a couple of giant,

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