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Sailors preparing for Operation Frankton at the start of the attack on the Port of Bordeaux, 1942.

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Operation Frankton

Photo: Sailors preparing for Operation Frankton at the start of the attack on the Port of Bordeaux, 1942. Image: Royal Marines Museum, public domain as Crown Copyright has expired.

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Goalhanger

16 Oct, 2023

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

57 mins

Special Forces

The Secret War

1942

British Army

Occupied Territories

Combined Operations

In December 1942, Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler's men were aiming for the occupied port of Bordeaux - with just canoes, mines and grenades. Operation FRANKTON was certainly daring and it did achieve its aims but only two out of ten ever made it back. James Holland and Al Murray discuss one of the most famous - but possibly hare-brained - missions of the entire Second World War.

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James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

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Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

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