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09-27-2007, 11:02 PM
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| Most Daring Raid What was the most daring raid be it by land, air or sea of WWII?
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09-28-2007, 06:37 PM
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| Operation Rheinübung and the brief but exciting hunt for the Bismarck comes to mind. That raid failed admirably 
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09-28-2007, 07:01 PM
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| ... Otto Skorzeny rescuing Mussolini.... .Doolittle Raid assassination of yamaoto The Cockleshell Heroes Operation Jericho Dam Busters Raid at Cabanatuan . . Last edited by comiso90; 09-28-2007 at 07:11 PM. |
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09-28-2007, 07:13 PM
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| Doolittle's Tokyo Raid Raid on Cabanatuan POW camp TO
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09-28-2007, 09:21 PM
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| The Italian frogmen who severly damaged RN Med fleet in Alexandria |
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09-28-2007, 10:17 PM
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| swordfish raid on Taranto |
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09-28-2007, 11:18 PM
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| ZForce attacking Singapore Harbour. In 1943 some ambitious officers of the Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB) wanted to strike the Japanese in their secure strongholds. 28 year old Captain Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders teamed up with 61 year old Australian Bill Reynolds and hatched a plan to attack the Japanese in Singapore harbour where they would launch collapsible canoes carrying commandos who would attach limpet mines to the Japanese shipping. "Z" Special Unit in Australia during WW2 |
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09-28-2007, 11:21 PM
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09-29-2007, 07:38 AM
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| U-47 attacking the RN home fleet harbour of Scapa Flow and sinking the BB HMS Royal Oak should count as well.
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09-29-2007, 10:37 AM
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| The daring of the Dambusters raid has always intrigued me. The Swordfish attack on Taranto was also an excellent example of daring and skill.
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09-29-2007, 08:39 PM
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| comiso90, different raid M8. The 'Cockleshell' raid was in Europe. Similar but not the same.  |
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09-30-2007, 03:30 AM
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| The Bruneval raid. |
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09-30-2007, 04:47 PM
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| Dare I say: Pearl Harbor?
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09-30-2007, 05:00 PM
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09-30-2007, 07:37 PM
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| PH was a raid, no doubt and a very influential one. But does that alone qualifies? The assmebling of houndreds of strike planes make me think that PH was not a specificly raid which fullfills the main requirement of "most daring raid"- That are the odds working against the raiders. In Pearl Harbour the odds were heavily favouring the raiders instead. A good example for a very daring raid are the italian attacks on the well guarded Alexandria harbour or the use of minisubs against Tirpitz in within it´s heavily guarded fjord.
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