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What Was Operation Chariot? The Daring WWII Raid Explained
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What Was Operation Chariot? The Daring WWII Raid Explained

On the night of March 27-28, 1942, 611 men sailed toward certain death. Their mission: destroy the largest drydock in the world before Germany's most powerful battleship could use it to devastate the Atlantic convoys keeping Britain alive.

Operation Chariot the raid on Saint-Nazaire would become the most decorated single action in World War II history. Yet most people have never heard of it.

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