Raw materials essential to keep the Nazis fighting came through Bordeaux before Royal Marine Major 'Blondie' Hasler sent a special raiding force in canoes. Ep5: Cockleshell Raiders
Britain faced Nazi Germany in July 1940 as Winston Churchill set up the Commandos, a fighting force to raid enemy coasts, and ordered a major assault on Vaagso in Norway. Ep6: Arctic Commando Assaults
Ordered to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base, British commandos undertook 'the greatest raid of all' by turning an old destroyer into a live bomb to ram the gates. Ep4: Storm at St. Nazaire