Talk:Operation Jericho

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I have changed 180 Wing to be 140 Wing. RAF History page shows the signal sent and the sqns all belong to 140 Wing. Sfortune 08:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French version

After have created the french interwiki link, I saw that the french version is quite different than the english one. The french one includes this operation as part of the global Operation Fortitude of desinformation. There were no much and important of french resistance people to free in this prison. Who's right ? TCY 17:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

It is what was said by a high-quality French magazine about warbirds (Le Fana de l'aviation No 432 - nov 2005 [1]). According to their research, and on the contrary of what has been frequently said, no execution was planned to take place in the prison, many of the prisonners had no link with the resistance, those who had were rather low-level guys, and there was no prisonner who was in the know of Overlord. The airmen were told that many resistants held there had helped downed aircrew to escape capture, but it was false. I'm not sure but I think I have read that British pilots were said that French resistants were informed of the raid and they would help to free the prisonners, and that was false. The codeword "Jericho" appeared in 1946, when the RAF turned the operation into a film. In 1944, the operation was called Ramrod 564, and was nicknamed "operation Renovate" (Renovate was the codeword to abort the mission) by airmen (I think that one of them wrote an account of its action under that name), as similarly op Eagle Claw is nickanmed "operation Desert One". Last, Amiens is rather near to Strait of Dover, but not from Normandy.

The reporters analyses that the operation was part of deceiving operations as "Fortitude" aiming to make the Germans believe that the allied beachs landing would take place in the Strait of Dover. Operation Jericho would have lead them to think that among the guys who escaped Amiens prison, some were higher-level resistants than the German had believed and were linked to Overlord. Rob1bureau 13:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discrepancies with respect to the narrative of Col.R.Lallemand

Hello, This attack is described in the book « Rendez vous avec le destin » written by Col. R. Lallemand who was the leader of the typhoon escort. There are some discrepancies between his narrative and the article:

1. Due to very bad weather condition over England (visibility below 50m), there were only four escort typhoons that performed the junction with mosquito bombers. The unit of these typhoons was the 198. There pilots were Col. R Lallemand “Cheval” as leader, a Belgian pilot whose has join the RAF (he was not yet colonel at the time of this attack), Jack Scambler, Richard Amstrong as N° 3 and 4. The name of the N°2 (right wingman of the leader) is not given in that book.
2. Only one typhoon was lost: the typhoon of the N°2. He was lost after the attack. Its pilot goes back to France after the return over England (sic).
3. Pictures were toke by a Mustang of the PRU (photography reconnaissance unit) just after the attack.

Pinson 14:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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