WW2’s most daring raid
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Churchill and Mountbatten: A Great Propaganda Coup?
In the minds of planners prior to the raid, did they see this as having potential propaganda value and of bolstering Britain's image as a military power? Absolutely. So there were, I suppose, three key audiences. There was the domestic public audience for whom Mountbatten insisted that the force commanders take two reporters with them. Roosevelt was extremely anxious that Britain be seen in the continental US to be pulling its weight in the war. Stalin had been begging for a second front in the European war for a long time. Churchill needed an answer to that too.
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