Operation CHARIOT: the 1942 raid on the Nazi U-boat base and battleship drydock at St-Nazaire, France. The book documents the amazing men who survived to tell their stories.
The most recent portrait series won Gold Austin and District ADDYs and were accepted to the 2012 Graphis Photography Annual.
The HMS Campbeltown ramming the drydock gate, packed with explosives. The commandos set more explosives, destroying the drydock. Nearly all were captured or killed.
Motor Gun Boat 314 at Operation CHARIOT departure point, Portsmouth Naval Yard, England, 2010
Falmouth, England
Wimslow, England
Letter from POW camp
At Normandie Dry-Dock, destroyed in the 1942 raid on St-Nazaire
Collinson at home on the Isle of Wight, England, 2010
Sub-Lieutenant, Motor Launch 446, London 2010
Burn at Cafe Osteria, Munich, where he met Hitler in 1934, and in German newsreel footage, captured during the raid
Burn at Colditz Castle, Weimar, Germany, where, as a POW, he ran the secret radio room
Burn stormed ashore at the Old Mole, and was wounded three times
Burn passed away September 3, 2010