It was the Allies’ ‘greatest raid of all’
SEVENTY five years ago British and commonwealth forces conducted a daring raid on the German-controlled French port of Saint-Nazaire
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War hero was ‘son of Mother England and Father Cathay’
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Hollywood’s first great scandal failed to stop funnyman ‘Fatty’
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