Author: Phillips, C. E. Lucas, OBE, MC (with the co-operation of Lt. Col. H. G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, RM, foreword Admiral The Earl Mountbatten, KG, PC, GCB, GCS, GCIE, GCVO, DSO),
Title: COCKLESHELL HEROES.
Description: Pan Books, London, 1965, 2nd printing, paperback, 256pp, 8pp, half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, pictorial panel upper wrapper (unattrib.), account of the raid on shipping in the German occupied harbour of Bordeaux in December 1942, Operation Frankton, by a team of Royal Marines using 'cockles' (kayak-type canoes) to gain access and then attaching limpet mines - only 2 of the team of 10 survived but six ships were put out of action, very slight slant and roll to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

Keywords: war ww2 rm royal marine bordeaux gironde garonne cockle limpet mine operation frankton


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