85 Bill Turner, POW, and the Cockleshell Heroes, WW2 Commandos

How the Cockleshell Heroes upset Nazi supply lines with canoes!

The Cockleshell Heroes, Operation Frankton, was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France

PLUS: How British Royal Fusilier, Bill Turner, survived  for 3 years as a German POW. Featured in Episode artwork.

More great unpublished history!

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Cockleshell article in Manchester Evening News:
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