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EARLY EPISODE: Operation Frankton
🕑 Added 2025-06-29 08:34:22 +0000 UTCThe British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle.
Sources:
CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWII
Quentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witness.
Robert Lyman. Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/operation-frankton-the-true-story-of-the-cockleshell-heroes/
Comments
Mike Currier
When do I get the vial of Augustus Gloop? ๐
3 Toed Jim
The raid test. Is this mission stupid? Yes. Is this mission cool as hell? Yes. Does it do anything to help your side with the war? No. Then itโs definitely a raid.
