One such raid is said to have occurred at St. Lawrence being that a German commando unit was landed from a fast gunboat or submarine at St. Lawrence having crossed from Alderney in the Channel Islands and then scaled the cliff, were they were involved in a short fire fight with guards at the Radar station.

As can be seen by the above photograph the cliffs are very minor and there are many well hidden little inlets for a boat party to land in.

They would have then had to move inland around 100 to 200mts to the command and control bunker where they would have grabbed whatever equipment they could and may off back to the their awaiting craft.

This may or may not have resulted in a few British being killed or wounded in the fight, but again there are no records to back this up. The German unit returned to a waiting U-boat / E-Baot , before crossing back across the Channel.

Speculation of such a German raid at St Lawrence has been circulating amongst a few interested parties for some time. They recently went public with a web site invited any locals with knowledge of the event to come forward. We now learn that after extensive research conducted by Adrian Searle an Island author he confirms the raid and that has written a book with more information in.

However, it does appear strange that this raid appears to be an exact copy of the Bruneval raid whereby the British Combined Forces several months after the alleged St Lawrence incident  conducted a snatch and grab exercise on a German Radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.  (As seen below)

Further to this the following report of a trial or mock raid conducted on the Ventnor Radar establishment seen to suggest that there may well be confusion as to who the actual perpetrators of the raid were.  

As documented on h2g2.com

" Without warning, No. 2 Special Services Battalion under the command of Colin Newman7 undertook a night raid, and successfully penetrated the outer minefield and other defences, bursting into the operations room and then putting stickers on equipment which, if it had been a real raid, they would have taken for study."

Thus the present position is still one of confusion and may well be just another myth of WWII ........ or was it?