Operation Chariot medal group charges in to auction

Operation Chariot on March 28, 1942, was one of the most daring British commando raids of the Second World War, aimed at destroying the heavily fortified dry dock at St Nazaire used by the German battleship Tirpitz.

The plan was to ram a converted destroyer, HMS Campbeltown, which was packed with explosives, into…

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