Falmouth remembers St Nazaire Raid

Local BBC News website report on today's commemorations:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-31787647

11 more local press photographs of today's events in Falmouth - the port of departure.
http://www.westbriton.co.uk/pictures/GALLERY-Heroes-daring-Second-World-War-St-Nazaire/pictures-26137402-detail/pictures.html

 

good day cornwallphil.sm.yesterday,18:55pm.re:falmouth remembers ST.NAZAIRE,raid.a very daring raid and closed up the use of the dry dock for years.to those who did not return may they rest in peace regards bernard85

 

Thank you CornwallPhil.

 

A few more pictures from the Falmouth Packet:

www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11842293._Greatest_Raid_as_tributes_paid_to_heroes_of_St_Nazaire_in_Falmouth__PICTURES/

 

I see from the Falmouth Packet that a new memorial to Operation Chariot is being planned for the National Memorial Arboretum including a steel replica of HMS Campbeltown riding high on the dock caisson.


You can read the report here: St Nazaire raid from Falmouth new memorial by Joanne Risley | Falmouth Packet

 

That would be a wonderful Memorial.