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The team had found their Wurzburg.

this discovery immediately suggested a tantalizing possibility brunoval lay only 150 kilometers across the english channel a mere puzzle jump what was more tony hill's aerial photographs revealed a path leading from the radar site down and narrowed afar in the cliffs to a small secluded beach shown on maps as la descent anglaise this path had been used for centuries by english and french smugglers sailors and tourists to enter and exit the country might it not be possible jones's team wondered to land a small raiding party and capture components of the werzburg and even some of the radar's operators Jones mentioned the idea to Lord Cherwell, who then passed it along to Prime Minister Churchill.

This was exactly the type of operation that appealed to Churchill, who, in June 1940, had ordered the establishment of an elite force known as the Commandos to carry out small butcher-and-bolt raids against targets in occupied Europe.

Via the air staff, the proposal was passed up to the Chief of Combined Operations, Lord Lewis Mountbatten.