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WW2’s most daring raid

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The Story of a Life Riff - A Case Study

Mickey Wynn was blown across the wheelhouse. He only broke a finger which is very painful but he also had an eyeball knocked out of its socket. Bill Lovegrove realizes that his skipper is not on deck, it's not in the water and climbs off the burning wreck with him onto a life raft. Arthur Young just manages to reach down and literally grab Mickey Byrne by his hair and pull him ashore. If you wanted to make a movie of this story you'd make the movie of Mickey Byrne. That was Jaz Patel. The greatest raid Sanderzerne 1942, the heroic story of Operation Chariot are now published by Viking.

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