Germans Called It Suicide — 10 British Canoe Paddlers Sank 5 Ships In One Night

December 1942. Ten Royal Marines slip out of a submarine into the freezing Atlantic in flimsy canvas canoes, bound for one of the most heavily defended harbours in occupied France. The Germans called the mission suicide — Bordeaux was too far, too guarded, too impossible to reach by water. Six men never made it past the estuary. Four more were captured and executed under Hitler's secret Commando Order. But before the end, two canoes slipped silently into Bordeaux harbour and did what battleships and bombers couldn't: they sank five enemy ships in a single night. This is the true story of Operation Frankton — the Cockleshell Heroes — and the impossible raid that changed naval warfare forever. #WW2 #OperationFrankton #CockleshellHeroes #RoyalMarines #WWIIHistory #MilitaryHistory #Bordeaux #CombinedOperations #WW2Documentary #SpecialForces