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Operation Biting

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Operation Biting, also called the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on the night of 27-28 February 1942 against a German Wurzburg radar installation at Bruneval, northern France. Around 120 airborne troops of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, led by Major John Frost, parachuted in, seized the radar site and a captured German technician, and were evacuated by Royal Navy landing craft. The intelligence recovered allowed British scientists to understand German radar technology and develop effective countermeasures.

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Operation Type
Special-forces raid (technical intelligence) 1
Start Date
1942-02-27 1
End Date
1942-02-28 1
Location
Bruneval, German-occupied France 1
Participants
2nd Parachute Battalion (1st Airborne Division), No. 51 Squadron RAF, Royal Navy landing craft, Royal Engineers 1
Objective
Capture components of a German Wurzburg radar installation intact for scientific examination in Britain 1
Outcome
The raid succeeded with relatively few casualties; recovered radar components and a captured technician let British scientists develop countermeasures, including the Window chaff technique 1
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British Army, Armed Forces and Units

Operation Biting was carried out by C Company of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, British Army

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World War II, Wars

Operation Biting, the 1942 Bruneval raid to capture German radar technology, took place during World War II

Source Wikipedia: Operation Biting
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1. Wikipedia: Operation Biting
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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 neutralize them.
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