TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downing,Taylor
TI  - Night raid: the true story of the first victorious British para raid of WWII
SN  - 9781408703724
U1  - 940.5421 DOW 
PY  - 2013///
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Army
KW  - Parachute Regiment
KW  - Battalion, 2nd
KW  - Company C
KW  - History
KW  - Bruneval Raid, Bruneval, France, 1942
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Radar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -