#OTD in 1944. Operation Jericho. A daring high precision low-level attack on Amiens prision, to allow prisoners to escape. "Of the 717 prisoners, 102 were killed, 74 wounded and 258 escaped, including 79 resistance and political prisoners." #WW2 #HISTORY
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Who in the UK requested it?
Those that have looked into it have concluded: it was SIS, and their motives remain unclear