Cockleshell Heroes

In October 1942, Chief of Combined Operations Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten unveiled the outline plan for Operation Frankton – destined to become one of the bravest, most courageous and imaginative raids of the entire war.

In December 1942 the plan was put into action. Ten Royal Marines launched a daring attack by canoe on enemy shipping lying in the docks of Bordeaux – a hazardous and successful offensive which only two survived…