BONUS EPISODE: The St. Nazaire Raid
Added 2025-01-01 11:03:14 +0000 UTCJoe and Nate explore the time the British launched a raid against Nazi-occupied France that included blind folded bombers, a suicide ship, driveby torpedo runs, and men in kilts that would kill or capture virtually everyone involved.
Sources:
James Dorrian. Storming St. Nazaire: the Gripping Story of the Dock-Busting Raid, March, 1942
William Floyd Jr. Raid on St. Nazaire. Military Heritage. Vol 18, No. 6
https://www.combinedops.com/St%20Nazaire.htm
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/bold-strategy-british-raid-st-nazaire
Comments
Jeremy Clarkson made a very entertaining doc on this raid.
Paul Shoobert
2025-01-23 20:23:07 +0000 UTCSeconding this! It's such a wild ride
Tal Rose
2025-01-12 07:40:50 +0000 UTCOn this, zoo crew review of SAS rouge hero's?
Jonathan Mort
2025-01-07 08:51:29 +0000 UTCI actually appreciate Nate stopping to clarify the "Old Mole" thing, because I was absolutely viewing it as a confusing Britishism
Markus D
2025-01-07 01:04:23 +0000 UTCI'm from the town where the raid was launched, have some great stories from my great aunt (who was in her mid twenties at the time) written down somewhere about how the whole town knew something was about to happen but it was all obviously very secretive. We were also taught about it at school (briefly) and also have a rememberence service every year at the memorial we have for the allies who were killed. Absolutely mental story, and this episode has shed light on some the crazier aspects that the blokes with the medals never talk about - definitely more research to be done here for me!
Gorth
2025-01-05 19:06:15 +0000 UTCIf you ever wanted another recap tv show the series’s of Das Boot is amazing
mumbles march
2025-01-05 06:31:51 +0000 UTCthis could make an insanely good movie. i don't have a joke here. the tow ship bluffing its way through the closing distance and holding steady under two bursts of fire, then accelerating to ramming speed as every german gun within a mile opens up simultaneously and all the gun boats cut tether to take off at full throttle ... i can hear the music in my head. you've got the doomed commandos nearly killed to a man but triumphant in key objectives, the false anticlimax of the failed detonation, and as the camera pulls back across the still morning carnage, ka-fucking-boom. roll credits. i'd see that twice. great episode, thanks.
Karl Childers
2025-01-03 06:34:32 +0000 UTCTom’s not even on this episode and y’all have invented Ulster Bushido
Paloma Alcala
2025-01-02 17:41:37 +0000 UTCThere are ponderables, imponderables, and ponderable imponderables
Jordan Clementi
2025-01-02 16:34:37 +0000 UTCYour mistress breaks a spaghetti noodle in half and disembowels you with it, and then your wife cuts off your head.
Loquin Britton-Herndon
2025-01-02 01:09:09 +0000 UTCI demand a norsk hydro heavy water raids series from ww2
andreas johansson
2025-01-02 01:01:24 +0000 UTC
