St Nazaire raid

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

The name of the ship was the name of my hometown, Campbelltown.

Interesting story, that, I was just looking at the Wiki page on this earlier this week.

IIRC, the HMS Campbelltown was one of the 50 4-stackers the US provided to Britain before we entered the war. Was it named after your town? I assumed it was, because according to the Wiki the ship's bell was rescued during the raid and eventually given to the town, then loaned back to the RN for use on the new HMS Campbelltown that was launched 40+ years later.