The Myths Of ‘Operation Jericho’

The story of the low-level precision attack on the prison at Amiens, France, has gone down in the annals of the RAF as one of daring heroism carried out to free a large number of Resistance workers from certain death. But the account of the raid is not all it seems, as Simon Parry reveals.

WORLD WAR TWO | AMIENS JAIL RAID

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