The raid saw a former US Navy destroyer, renamed HMS Campbeltown, packed with explosives and rammed hard into a dry dock in St. Nazaire, Normandy, accompanied by 18 smaller boats carrying crack squads ...
HMS Campbeltown: Named after the wartime destroyer ... port and denying its use to major German warships for the rest of WW2. The action epitomises the raiding ethos driving the Royal Marines ...