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WW2: Special Boat Service

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The Attrition Rate of the SBS Raids

The most infamous mission of all one that is probably the best known amission. Operation frankton, which is the cockle shell hero's raid on bordeaux. Six pairs of canoeists are goingto be dropped off by canoe five miles from the mouth of the girand estuary and try and avoid an area crawling with german guards. When they there, they're going to try and sink multiple ships that are vast transport ships that are carrying vital raw materials between japan and the axis forces in western europe. And this is just as close as any mission i've read about in the sycond mol that was a suicide mission. It really does show the ingenuity and the bravery

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