Though successful, the operation came at a steep cost; of the roughly 600 commandos sent on the raid, nearly 400 were killed or captured.
In March 1942, British commandos and naval forces launched one of the boldest raids of World War II against the German-held port of St. Nazaire. Using deception, darkness, and suicidal courage, they ...
Special Service Force (also called The Devil's Brigade or The Black Devils), was an elite American-Canadian commando unit in[ ...