Dark Seas | The Craziest Sea Operation of WWII @DarkDocsSeas | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The fall of France had been a disaster to the Allies in more ways than one, and by 1942, they were still struggling to contain the advantages the Wehrmacht had gained.
Germany could now employ French harbors to launch U-boat attacks on the Allied convoys traversing the Atlantic Ocean, and containing these naval assaults proved too complicated now that the enemy’s navy was not boxed in the North Sea.
The French port of Bordeaux was especially precious to German naval operations and soon became a prime target for the Allies. But attacking it directly was practically impossible, as the maritime base was inland, only connected to the sea by the Garonne river. If the Allies launched a naval attack, they would most likely be obliterated by land artillery guns and Luftwaffe warplanes before reaching the port.
On the other hand, a covert commando operation was more conceivable, and soon a group of ten recently-formed British commandos was tasked with the excruciating task of infiltrating the most fortified port in Nazi-occupied France aboard canoes…
The fall of France had been a disaster to the Allies in more ways than one, and by 1942, they were still struggling to contain the advantages the Wehrmacht had gained.
Germany could now employ French harbors to launch U-boat attacks on the Allied convoys traversing the Atlantic Ocean, and containing these naval assaults proved too complicated now that the enemy’s navy was not boxed in the North Sea.
The French port of Bordeaux was especially precious to German naval operations and soon became a prime target for the Allies. But attacking it directly was practically impossible, as the maritime base was inland, only connected to the sea by the Garonne river. If the Allies launched a naval attack, they would most likely be obliterated by land artillery guns and Luftwaffe warplanes before reaching the port.
On the other hand, a covert commando operation was more conceivable, and soon a group of ten recently-formed British commandos was tasked with the excruciating task of infiltrating the most fortified port in Nazi-occupied France aboard canoes…
