Qualla: Operation Ambassador https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/operation-ambassador-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Operation Ambassador https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador Operation Ambassador: Introduction https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. Three men from H Troop, No. 3 Commando, sat in the dark on a Guernsey beach with a wad of French francs and a problem: they could not swim. The motor launches that had brought them ashore could no longer reach the rocks at high water, and the rendezvous with the destroyers was at 0300. Their commanding officer asked the Admiralty to send a submarine. The Admiralty said no. The three men waited for daylight and the Germans, and Operation Ambassador, the second commando raid of the Second World War, ended the way the entire night had gone, with British soldiers stranded on someone else's beach.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/operation-ambassador-wp/gby1-operation-ambassador-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Operation Ambassador: Churchill's Hurry https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. The Germans landed on Guernsey on 30 June 1940. Two days later Winston Churchill sent a memo to General Hastings Ismay: organize a raid on the Channel Islands, immediately, this is exactly the work the new Commandos should be doing. The War Office approved the proposal the same d...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/operation-ambassador-wp/gby1-operation-ambassador-churchills-hurry.mp3 0:06 2 full Operation Ambassador: Reconnaissance and Reality https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. On the night of 7-8 July a submarine, HMS H43, put Lieutenant Hubert Nicolle ashore on Guernsey. Nicolle was Hampshire Regiment but Guernsey-born, originally commissioned in the Royal Guernsey Militia, and could move on the island without attracting attention. He came home with u...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/operation-ambassador-wp/gby1-operation-ambassador-reconnaissance-and-reality.mp3 0:06 3 full Operation Ambassador: Everything That Could Go Wrong https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. A party from No. 11 Independent Company put down on the wrong island. Their compass was off, and they landed on Little Sark, ten miles southeast of where they were meant to be. They explored La Sablonnerie, found no Germans, and returned to the destroyer. Another launch hit a roc...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/operation-ambassador-wp/gby1-operation-ambassador-everything-that-could-go-wrong.mp3 0:06 4 full Operation Ambassador: Failure That Mattered https://qualla.com/operation-ambassador/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. The official tally was bleak. No Germans killed or captured. No aircraft destroyed. Three British prisoners. Equipment carried that nobody needed: extra ammunition, steel helmets, gaiters that filled with seawater. The press tried to spin it heroic. The commandos themselves did n...

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