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When we tell the stories of the grand military campaigns throughout history, they are dominated by operations to charge through the enemy’s main lines, pushing the enemy back, and driving them to ultimate defeat. However, another form of attack has long been a staple of military campaigns, but it doesn’t seek to hold territory it captures. Instead, a raid aims to achieve an objective such as destroying vital supplies or an enemy’s headquarters before retreating back to friendly lines. A raiding force often has to be aggressive, well-equipped to be able to defend itself for often they lack support from other units and above all have to be mobile in order to reach their objectives and then escape. It is without question, a terrifyingly risky endeavour and, as a result, there are many that ended in tragedy, and disaster.

In today’s episode, we are going to look at three of the raids from World War II that for a variety of reasons went horribly wrong. Welcome to Wars of the World.

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Narrated by: William Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins

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