No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. Greatest raid of all time jboothmillard 29 september 2010. Mar 25, 2015 jeremy clarksons contract will not be renewed after a physical altercation with a producer, the bbcs director general tony hall has said. Jeremy clarkson drives amazon prime records to alltime. Jeremy clarkson simple english wikipedia, the free. Jeremy clarkson from top gear presents this documentary focusing on one of the most important missions that determined the outcome of world war ii for us, the british. This is a fan page, i do not represent bbc top gear or jeremy clarkson. The st nazaire raid or operation chariot was a british amphibious attack on the heavily defended normandie dry dock at st nazaire in germanoccupied france during the second world war.
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