Not far from Freezingham-by-the-Sea, along the coast is a chain home low radar station.
The Germans plan to make a raid to disable the station and take some key components for analysis. A squad of paratroopers is being sent; their extraction point is on the beach below....
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The radar installation.....
Home guard cliff patrol and observation post
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Early in the morning, a couple of hours before the dawn..the German paratroop drop went without a hitch and they were approaching the coast and the radar installation
The German paratroops move up by a deserted pillbox...
and the across the rough fields towards the radar installation
Home guard cliff watch patrols and the radar installation sentries are wandering about
Also searching for sighted parachutists a small detachment of regular British troops...
The paratroopers have reached the installation
two men start to cut a hole in the fence and make a noise... the sentry moves their way..
sees nothing and wanders away again... meanwhile a small group of paratroopers work their way round towards the sea to secure the extraction zone.. a sentry in the installation peers into the gloom but does not see them....
The paratroopers enter the installation compound....
One paratrooper tries to take out a sentry,
while three have sneaked round to get into the equipment building ..
Another sentry hearing scuffles runs up towards the noise..
The charges explode in the equipment hut, the generators are out and the diesel oil is ablaze...the glow of the fire spreads a pallid glow across the area as dawn approaches...
The paratroops by the coast make their move and attack the home guard observation post...
The paratroopers enter the control room building and deal with a sentry ....
The British regulars head towards the source of the explosion guided by the light of the fire...
Two sentries deal with a lone German paratrooper...
The Germans have secured the control room building...
The operators are led off to the air-raid shelter
The paratroopers have secured the home guard observation post and the inflatables from the submarine offshore are on their way in ...
The regulars reach the radar installation compound....
The surviving paratroopers move off and cut through the wire to get to the extraction point...
The charges in the radar control building and at the base of the tower go off....
The landing party, home guard and paratroops exchange fire
The British regulars move up at the double....
The germans fall back to cliff and then onto the beach .... losing men as they withdraw...
The paratroopers with the radar parts are taken out to the submarine, some of the landing party are left behind
The three landing party larea eft on the beach - eventually they surrender to the British.
A successful raid by the Germans...
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Notes:
- The German raid was a success, CHL installation knocked out and radar parts taken back for analysis.
- The Germans however they lost 2/3rds of the paratroops killed (8) and 3 men from the landing party captured.
- British losses 2 home guard, 3 sentries and 2 regulars.
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The paratroopers with the radar parts are taken out to the submarine, some of the landing party are left behind
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