Credits
- Presenter
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Director
- Richard Pearson
- Producer
- Andy Wilman
Duration: 1 hour
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what has been called 'the original Mission Impossible' – the audacious commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St Nazaire in France on March 28th 1942. Operation Chariot, as the raid was codenamed, had a simple aim: to destroy the dry dock and thus deny the German battleship Tirpitz a safe haven on the Atlantic coast of France.
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