Le monument du Commando

St Nazaire Aka Pathe Front Page (1947)

Full title reads: St. Nazaire.



St. Nazaire, France.



Heroes of the blockship raid of 1942 are honoured as monument to the fallen is unveiled.



MS Paul Ramadier, Premier of France, shaking hands with British heroes. MS Paul Ramadier decorating VC's Ryder, Lieutenant Colonel Newman and Beattie, with the Croix de Guerre. Alfred Duff Cooper presents medals to Frenchmen on behalf of Britain.



CU the Victoria Cross and the Croix de Guerre hanging from the chest of Col. Newman, panning to his face. CU the VC and the Croix de Guerre hanging from the chest of Ryder, panning to his face.



MS of Commandos, who took part in the raid, wearing civilian clothes. LS the Commandos marching through the crowded street of St Nazaire. The three leaders carry laurel wreaths.



MS a memorial, a needle of granite, is unveiled by Ramadier. MS Monsieur Ramadier and a French sailor laying wreaths on the memorial. CU inscription on monument.



Cut in shots of people watching ceremony.
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St Nazaire Raid re-dedication of Operation Chariot Memorial in Falmouth

One of themost heroic raids of WW2 undertaken by Royal Navy and 2 Commando brigade.

Saint-Nazaire : une salle multi-événements dans la base sous-marine

A Saint-Nazaire, l'Alvéole 12 de la base sous-marine est le théâtre d'un chantier de 10 millions d'euros. Pour remplacer la vieillissante salle Jacques Brel, la Ville a décidé d'y construire une salle multi-événements. Ouverture prévue début 2018.

L'émouvante musique des cornemuses accompagnant l'arrivée des cercueils

En hommage aux soldats Cédric de Pierrepont et Alain Bertoncello, tués lors de la libération des otages au Burkina Faso, le bagad de Lann-Bihoué (un ensemble de musique bretonne appartenant à la marine nationale) a accompagné l'arrivée des cercueils en interprétant la Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce.

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Baie de Saint-Nazaire

Timelapse de la baie de Saint-Nazaire. Le front de mer, le skate park, les jeux de plages…

The Bruneval Raid

The Bruneval Raid

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting Official Trailer

In 1941 Dr RV Jones became convinced that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for increasing RAF bomber casualties. The hunt was on! Eventually an enemy Würzburg system was located on the cliffs of Northern France at Bruneval and seizing it would be the solution to overcoming the enemy radar problem. A joint operation was planned by HQ Combined Ops that would involve all three Services, including the newly raised and barely parachute qualified C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion, Commanded by Major John Frost.

The planning went well but the rehearsals involving the Royal Navy were all disastrous. As the narrow window of moon and tide approached it was decided 'to bash on'. Nine of the twelve sticks of Paratroopers were dropped by 51 Squadron and the Germans were caught napping on a winters night. However, they quickly responded and the Paras had a serious fight on their hands to keep the enemy at bay while the experts, who the Paras had orders to kill rather than let fall into enemy hands, dismantled. With the enemy closing in the job was done and the force started to withdraw but elements of Frosts plan were beginning to unravel. It seemed that they may be blocked but with the Paras converging on the beach they secured their escape on the badly delayed Royal Navy landing craft.

In Britain's darkest hour the success of the Bruneval raid was just what Churchill needed and the information gained saved the lives of many aircrew.

Bruneval raid Ep-11

This is an video tribute to the paratroppers who risked their lives for us. Its about operation biting in second world war. For more info

Bruneval Raid - Operating Biting Trailer

This is a new series of full length DVDs starting with the Bruneval Raid -- Operation Biting.

It will concentrate on World War II Combined operations raids by Commandos and Paras along with other intelligence and sabotage operations by the SOE and SAS.

Future titles include SAS Operation Bullbasket, St Nazaire Raid -- Operation Chariot, Cockleshell Raid -- Operation Frankton and Bletchley Park -- The Secret War.

Visite guidée de Vimy, 1ère Guerre Mondiale

En territoire canadien, ce haut-lieu de la bataille de Vimy est chargé d'histoire, d'émotion et de dépaysement'par l'accueil des jeunes canadiens. On comprend en parcourant le site et en se rendant au Monument toute l'importance stratégique de la crête de Vimy.

Colonel Oliver Warman discussing Operation Biting

Colonel Oliver Warman (retired) of the Welsh Guards, narrating the story of the Bruneval Raid (aka Operation Biting) in World War 2. The video was taken during one of his excellent battlefield tours of Normandy, France.

Free France | Wikipedia audio article

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Free France and its Free French Forces (French: France Libre and Forces françaises libres) were the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War and its military forces, that continued to fight against the Axis powers as one of the Allies after the fall of France. Set up in London in June 1940, it organised and supported the Resistance in occupied France.
Charles de Gaulle, a French government minister who rejected the armistice concluded by Marshal Philippe Pétain and who had escaped to Britain, exhorted the French to resist in his BBC broadcast Appeal of 18 June (Appel du 18 juin), which had a stirring effect on morale throughout France and its colonies, although initially relatively few French forces responded to de Gaulle's call for resistance.
On 27 October 1940, the Empire Defense Council (Conseil de défense de l'Empire) was constituted to organise the rule of the territories in central Africa, Asia and Oceania that had heeded the 18 June call. It was replaced on 24 September 1941 by the French National Committee (Comité national français or CNF). On 13 July 1942, Free France was officially renamed France combattante (Fighting France), to mark that the struggle against the Axis was conducted both externally by the FFF and internally by the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). After the reconquest of North Africa, this was in turn formally merged with de Gaulle's rival general Henri Giraud's command in Algiers to form the French Committee of National Liberation (Comité français de Libération nationale or CFNL). Exile officially ended with the liberation of Paris by the 2nd Armoured Free French Division and Resistance forces on 25 August 1944, ushering in the Provisional Government of the French Republic (gouvernement provisoire de la République française or GPRF). It ruled France until the end of the war and afterwards to 1946, when the Fourth Republic was established, thus ending the series of interim regimes that had succeeded the Third Republic after its fall in 1940.
The Free French fought Axis and Vichy regime troops and served on battlefronts everywhere from the Middle East to Indochina and North Africa. The Free French Navy operated as an auxiliary force to the Royal Navy and, in the North Atlantic, to the Royal Canadian Navy. Free French units also served in the Royal Air Force, Soviet Air Force, and British SAS, before larger commands were established directly under the control of the government-in-exile.
From colonial outposts in Africa, India, and the Pacific, Free France steadily took over more and more Vichy possessions, until after the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) in November 1942 Vichy only ruled over the zone libre in southern France and a few possessions in the West Indies (and nominally over Japanese-occupied French Indochina). The French Army of Africa switched allegiance to Free France, and this caused the Axis to occupy Vichy in reaction.
On August 1, 1943, L'Armée d'Afrique was formally united with the Free French Forces to form L'Armée française de la Liberation. By mid-1944, the forces of this army numbered more than 400,000, and they participated in the Normandy landings and the invasion of southern France, eventually leading the drive on Paris. Soon they were fighting in Alsace, the Alps and Brittany, and by the end of the war in Europe, they were 1,300,000 strong – the fourth-largest Allied army in Europe – and took part in the Allied advance through France and invasion of Germany. The Free French government re-established a provisional republic after the liberation, preparing the ground for the Fourth Republic in 1946.