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rdfs:label
  • St Nazaire Raid
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • St Nazaire Raid
skos:altLabel
  • raid
  • Saint-Nazaire
  • Footnotes
  • St Nazaire
  • St-Nazaire
  • St. Nazaire
  • British commando raid
  • Jeremy Clarkson: The Greatest Raid of All Time
  • Operation Chariot
  • naval and Commando raid to destroy the ''Normandie'' dock gates
  • St Nazaire, 29 March 1942
  • St. Nazaire Raid
  • noted commando raid
  • permanently disables
  • raid on St Nazaire
  • raid on St. Nazaire
  • successful British raid
  • used to ram and destroy the dock gates
clgo:causalties
  • HMS Campbeltown
  • 1Motor Torpedo Boat
  • 13Motor Launches
  • 169 dead
  • 1Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
  • 1Bristol Beaufighter
  • 1Motor Gun Boat
  • 215prisoners of war
clgo:combatant
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
clgo:commander
clgo:date
  • 1942-03-28
clgo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • British victory
  • * Normandie dry dock rendered inoperable for the rest of the war
clgo:strength
  • 5,000 troops
  • 346 Royal Navy
  • 265 Commandosref|Sources differ on the numbers. In the London Gazette account of the raid the Admiralty states there were 353 Royal Navy and 268 Commandos.|group=nb
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