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• Operation_Biting abstract "Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was the code name given to a British Combined Operations raid on a German radar installation at Bruneval in northern France, which took place on the night of 27–28 February 1942 during World War II. A number of these installations were identified from Royal Air Force (RAF) aerial reconnaissance photographs during 1941, but their exact purpose and the nature of the equipment that they possessed was not known. However, a number of British scientists believed that these stations were connected with the heavy losses being experienced by RAF bombers conducting bombing raids against targets in Occupied Europe. The scientists requested that one of these installations be raided and the technology it possessed be studied and, if possible, extracted and brought back to Britain for further examination. Due to the extensive coastal defences erected by the Germans to protect the installation from a seaborne raid, it was believed that a Commando raid from the sea would suffer heavy losses and give sufficient time for the garrison at the installation to destroy the Würzburg radar set. It was therefore decided that an airborne assault followed by seaborne evacuation would be the most practicable way to surprise the garrison of the installation, seize the technology intact, and minimise casualties to the raiding force.On the night of 27 February, after a period of intense training and several delays due to poor weather, a company of airborne troops under the command of Major John Frost parachuted into France a few miles from the installation. The main force then assaulted the villa in which the radar equipment was kept, killing several members of the German garrison and capturing the installation after a brief firefight. An RAF technician with the force dismantled the Würzburg radar array and removed several key pieces, after which the force withdrew to the evacuation beach. However, the detachment assigned to clear the beach had initially failed to do so, but the German force guarding it was soon eliminated with the help of the main force. The raiding troops were picked up by landing craft, then transferred to several Motor Gun Boats which returned them to Britain. The raid was entirely successful. The airborne troops suffered relatively few casualties, and the pieces of the radar they brought back, along with a captured German radar technician, allowed British scientists to understand enemy advances in radar and to create countermeasures to neutralise them.".
• Operation_Biting causalties "Two killed, six wounded, six captured".
• Operation_Biting commander John_Frost_(British_Army_officer).
• Operation_Biting date "1942-02-28".
• Operation_Biting isPartOfMilitaryConflict World_War_II.
• Operation_Biting place France.
• Operation_Biting place Saint-Jouin-Bruneval.
• Operation_Biting result "Britishvictory".
• Operation_Biting strength "120 commandos, 1 SqnRAFtransports,RNsupport craft".
• Operation_Biting strength "Approximately 130".
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• Operation_Biting caption "RAF photo-reconnaissance picture of the Würzburg radar array at Bruneval in December 1941".
• Operation_Biting casualties "Five killed, two wounded, two captured, three missing".
• Operation_Biting casualties "Two killed, six wounded, six captured".
• Operation_Biting commander John_Frost_(British_Army_officer).
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• Operation_Biting place France.
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• Operation_Biting result "British victory".
• Operation_Biting strength "120".
• Operation_Biting strength "Approximately 130".
• Operation_Biting subject Category:1942_in_France.
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• Operation_Biting subject Category:Radar.
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• Operation_Biting comment "Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was the code name given to a British Combined Operations raid on a German radar installation at Bruneval in northern France, which took place on the night of 27–28 February 1942 during World War II. A number of these installations were identified from Royal Air Force (RAF) aerial reconnaissance photographs during 1941, but their exact purpose and the nature of the equipment that they possessed was not known.".
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