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There were a few V.C's handed out for that raid the motor boats (ML's) that were escorting the Cambell-Town copped a severe pasting from the shore defenses and as they were petrol fueled burned quite readily being of wooden design did not much good either with rounds passing clean through them and personnel. Along with the ramming was a raid by Commando's on the electrical installations in the area with ferocious pitched battles in the area with the German soldiers stationed there. From memory I think there was to be an air raid as well but it was called off due to cloud cover could be incorrect there.(I read the book along time ago)
A good read of the raid is a book called "The Greatest Raid of All" another great read of heroism with daring do's also along the same lines but the Brits this time used a Cruiser, Submarine and Block ships was the "Zeebrugge raid" in WWI

U K ~ a bag load of nosey civies went up as well