OPERATION BELLICOSE

London, England • February 27, 1942 Under the cover of darkness on this date in 1942, 119 British para­troopers kicked off Opera­tion Biting when they para­chuted into Nazi-occu­pied Nor­mandy close to a German radar sta­tion in the parish (com­mune) of La Poterie-Cap-d’An­ti­fer, 12 miles/­19 km north of the large French har­bor of Le Havre. A num­ber of what…