Tuesday's Documentary

The Raid on St Nazaire (1974x1)

Air date: Mar 26, 1974

In March 1942, a combined force of Royal Navy and Army commandos sailed up the River Loire in France, under fire from German forces, to St Nazaire, where they destroyed the giant Normandie dock - a prospective base for the German battleship Tirpitz. A group of survivors revisit St Nazaire and recall their roles in the mission.