Word: campbeltown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haul. Near Campbeltown, Scotland, the fishing boat Nil Desperandum dropped her nets in the Firth of Clyde, snared His Majesty's submarine Alcide...
...Germans, with great ceremony, paid tribute to one of their own prisoners, Lieut. Commander Stephen Haider Beattie. Through the Red Cross notification had come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other Commando-men were captured...
...best soldiers'-eye-accounts of the war, Commandos reaches a climax of anti-theatrics when Lieut. Thomas Wilson Boyd describes his part in the March raid on the St. Nazaire submarine base. Assigned to draw fire away from the destroyer Campbeltown, Boyd had, says he, an "easy job." All he had to do was to take his motor gunboat into the river, get in the crossbeams of the German searchlights and stay there...
...untidy-looking crate, but she went to her end with a gallantry that insured her fame forever. She was known as "Old Buck" to British tars, officially listed as the H.M.S. Campbeltown. Not long ago, before her transfer to Britain, she had been the 1,090-ton U.S. destroyer Buchanan...
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