![In a painting by Richard Eurich, British commandos drop from the night sky and scramble onto the beach during the daring raid on the Bruneval radio location station in coastal France, February 27-28, 1942.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/WW-Bruneval-Lead-4C-Jul02-e1710797375190-760x428.jpg)
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Operation Biting: the Bruneval Raid to Capture German Radar
By Robert Barr SmithThrough the long, lovely days of the summer of 1940, almost two years before Operation Biting or the “Bruneval Raid,” Royal Air Force Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes turned back the might of the Luftwaffe over southern and southeastern Britain. Read more