Saturday, 28 May 2011

Cockleshell Heros on Hayling Island

Via the blog of the Historical Maritime Society the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties, better known as Cockleshell Heros from the film that was made about their daring raid on Bordeaux in 1942, are getting a memorial erected on Hayling Island were they conducted much of their training. Currently it is little more than a huge granite block from which the eventual memorial will be carved, but once it is finished it could be a reason for going to the Island. Having been to Hayling Island once it would probably be the only reason to go.

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