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I'm looking for a plausibility check on a short tale that's been floating around my head over Christmas. A decent documentary on Operation Frankton and several Dad's Army Christmas specials, have given me the willpower to do a short timeline.

Whilst I have no doubt to the likely outcome, I do have doubts over whether it would even get going as it's not the most practical of operations, and certainly nothing less than a suicide mission. The reason for the choice of location is because I have local knowledge, although I did consider a similar exercises noted below. Quite happy to be told that it's just not going to happen, but would welcome debate on what could be a practical, meaningful alternative.

Thoughts please:

Operation Brandreth: The German Raid on Barrow-in-Furness
It is the summer of 1940 and whilst plans are still on the table for an invasion of England, the Nazis develop a one-off raid to frighten and demoralise the British. As the summer progresses the likelihood of an invasion decreases to zero, and Operation Brandreth begins to be formulated.

By November of 1940 three vessels are nearing completion in the isolated port of Barrow in north Lancashire. The mission is to insert a small group into the area with the primary objective of destroying the Jubilee and Michaelson Bridges in the town, temporarily cutting access to the shipyard.

The secondary objective is the airfield at Walney Island, an RAF training facility.

Other alternatives

1. The railway raids: 2 x small groups inserted into northern England, targets being the rail bridge over the Lune at Tebay, and the Ribblehead Viaduct in Yorkshire.

2. Millom: The steelworks, iron ore mines and railway

Thoughts welcome...
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