Unbelievable mission. And head shaking when you realize today it would be done with a missile or a B-2 unloading several 2000lb JDAMS at 3am.
The missions they used to only be able to accomplish with people are amazing.
It seems they don't make them like that any more.
The part that got my attention were the two commandos who waited out their time on this bomb.
“Suddenly, without warning at 1035, a deafening explosion shook the Saint-Nazaire area as the Cambeltown’s charges detonated, destroying the forward part of the ship and the dry-dock caisson and killing up to 400 Germans still on board and two captured Commando officers who knew that the ship was about to blow up but did not say so.”