Operation "Forefar Love"

Briefing: At Onival on the French coast, a crucial commando raid on a German-staffed research laboratory will be carried out in a few days; the mission's objectives are the capture of blueprints and/or prototypes of a new German airborne radar …

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Briefing: At Onival on the French coast, a crucial commando raid on a German-staffed research laboratory will be carried out in a few days; the mission's objectives are the capture of blueprints and/or prototypes of a new German airborne radar system and the death or capture of the German scientists engaged in developing it. To delay and disperse enemy military reaction to the raid, a diversionary operation will take place three hours earlier, 30 miles away. Your Commando has been assigned the task of engineering the diversion. Your men are to come ashore near the village of Biville and engage the enemy troops quartered there. Attempt to kill as many enemy as possible, to destroy as much equipment as possible. If the German commandant in the region is convinced that your activity is a major raid, he will commit forces that would otherwise react to the raid on Onival. It is imperative that you draw these forces to Bi ville; it is equally important, however, that your force be withdrawn before their arrival and that your losses be kept to a minimum.

Biville, France

The Commandos formed during the Second World War, following an order from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in June 1940 for a force that could carry out raids against German occupied Europe. Churchill stated in a minute to General Ismay on 6 June 1940: "Enterprises must be prepared, with specially-trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts, first of all on the "butcher and bolt" policy..." Commandos were all volunteers for special service and originally came from the British Army but volunteers would eventually come from all branches of the United Kingdom's armed forces and foreign volunteers from countries occupied by the Germans. These volunteers formed over 30 individual units and four assault brigades. The commandos would serve in all the theatres of war from the Arctic Circle, to Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. Their operations ranged from small groups of men landing from the sea or by parachute to a brigade of assault troops spearheading the Allied invasions of Europe and Asia.

Wikipedia: British Commando operations during the Second World War

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