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They Walked a Booby-Trapped Destroyer - Then It Blew Apart
They Walked a Booby-Trapped Destroyer - Then It Blew Apart
Curiosity turned lethal: at noon on 28 March 1942 forty German officers walked the buckled decks of a wrecked British destroyer and were still talking when a hidden four-and-a-half-ton explosive charge detonated, destroying the Normandie dry dock in an instant. How did six hundred and twelve men sail into the Loire estuary, ram a disguised destroyer into the world's largest dry dock, and leave behind a wreck that reshaped the Atlantic war - and who paid the price for that decision?
In this episode, we tell the story of Operation…
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