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The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War.
Winston Churchill faced a bleak winter of 1942 that promised continued air raids, setbacks on land, and struggles on the home front exacerbated by German U-Boat and surface fleets strangling supply routes to his belov...
On 28 March 1942, British forces launched one of the most daring operations of the Second World War. Now known as “The Greatest Raid of All”, Operation Chariot was an attack on the docks at St Nazaire in German-occupi...
Learn how a single raid shaped the Atlantic war effort, denying Germany a strategic advantage and altering the course of WWII. In 1941, as the threat of German invasion of Britain began to recede and the British consi...
Operation Chariot was the Raid on St Nazaire, France March 1942 which put the Normandie Dock out of action. It denied Germany use of the largest dry dock in the eastern Atlantic for the rest of the war.
Now, facing the Tirpitz’s impregnable defenses, Gubbins identified an unexpected vulnerability: the massive Normandie dry dock at Saint-Nazaire, the only Atlantic facility capable of servicing Hitler’s flagship.
Operation Chariot was an audacious Combined Operation raid on the port of St Nazaire in German occupied France. Packed with tons of high explosives, the destroyer, HMS Campbeltown, was rammed into the gates of the onl...
St Nazaire, on the north bank of the Loire estuary is six miles from the sea. However, there was a very narrow channel through the shoals and the defences were formidable.
The St Nazaire Raid, known as Operation Chariot, conducted on March 28, 1942, during World War II, was a daring British operation targeting the Normandie dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France.
During World War II, one of the most daring and audacious special forces operations carried out by British commandos was the St. Nazaire Raid, codenamed Operation Chariot.
