
Flak enters in action as of the first minutes. The group
of parachutists charged to release the passage towards the sea
is released too much far from its drop zone. Two other parachutings
are successful. Some gusts, a grenade, the six guards of the radar
are very quickly killed. The Germans react quickly: hardly the
dismounted radar, a Mg spits its grapeshot. Men collapse. But
the objective is in the hands of Cox. After having destroyed the
radars, the two groups start to evacuate in good order, direction
the beach. This one has been under control of the third group
only for a few minutes. In the course of road, this group with
cross a German patrol: «Hallo!». German take them
for friends. It should be believed that the paras can be relaxed
at any time! A German soldier is mistaken and follows our English
who gets rid some with the knife.
The cleaned beach, engineer Cox, major Frost and the remainder
of the commando embark in the fast patrol boats of Royal Navy
and regain their home port under the shooting of the médusés
Germans.
It is
a total success. The radar is with the hands of the English engineers.
The operation made only two did not die, six wounded and six disappeared.
Biting is a model for all the actions commandos. It will especially
contribute to dig the advance allied in technology radar. In the
current the 1943 first lures - the system «Windows»
- are developed and used. They are fine aluminium strips which,
released in masses in the airs, scramble the echoes radar. The
radar is then plugged because it cannot detect the planes drowned
in a metal mass.
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