Night raid: the true story of the first victorious British para raid of WWII
by Downing, Taylor.
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BookPublisher: Little, Brown 2013ISBN: 9781408703724; 9781408703731; 9780748131310; 1408703734; 9780748131310; 0748131310; 1408703726.Classification number: 940.5421 DOWSubject(s): Great Britain Army Parachute Regiment Battalion, 2nd Company C -- History | Bruneval Raid, Bruneval, France, 1942 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Radar | World War, 1939-1945 -- RadarSubject: 1941. British aerial reconnaissance discovered what seemed to be a rotating radar tower on a clifftop at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The decision was taken to launch a daring raid on the Bruneval site to try and capture the technology for further examination. The parachute regiment had only been formed a year before on Churchill's insistence. This text tells the tale of this mission from the planning stages, to the failed rehearsals when the odds seemed stacked against them, to the night of the raid itself, and the scientific secrets that were discovered thanks to the paras' precious cargo - the German radar.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1941. British aerial reconnaissance discovered what seemed to be a rotating radar tower on a clifftop at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The decision was taken to launch a daring raid on the Bruneval site to try and capture the technology for further examination. The parachute regiment had only been formed a year before on Churchill's insistence. This text tells the tale of this mission from the planning stages, to the failed rehearsals when the odds seemed stacked against them, to the night of the raid itself, and the scientific secrets that were discovered thanks to the paras' precious cargo - the German radar.
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