Operation Jericho, 18th February 1944 - The RAF sends Mosquitos in a daring raid to destroy the prison walls of the Amiens Prison, allowing French Resistance prisoners to escape. The freed inmates will go on to do perform valuable intelligence gathering and sabotage work in the lead up to the liberation of France in the coming months.

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