Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what's 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.
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what's 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.
