Jeremy Clarkson
Greatest Raid of All Time (1x12)
Air date: Mar 18, 2007
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what has been called 'the original Mission Impossible' – the audacious commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St Nazaire in France on March 28th 1942. Operation Chariot, as the raid was codenamed, had a simple aim: to destroy the dry dock and thus deny the German battleship Tirpitz a safe haven on the Atlantic coast of France.
- Premiered: Nov 1995
- Episodes: 24
- Followers: 3