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title: Britain's Shock Troops Raid the Enemy Coast
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britains-shock-troops-raid-enemy-coast-uk-1939/
description: A photograph of Commandos wading ashore from landing craft on a rocky beach, captioned as a practice assault exercise.
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---

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# Britain's Shock Troops Raid the Enemy Coast

A photograph of Commandos wading ashore from landing craft on a rocky beach, captioned as a practice assault exercise. The tell for card stacking is the claim that raids cause 'great unrest' in German garrisons, stated without examples; the 'For Freedom' emblem is the glittering-generalities marker. The text itself says the scene is an exercise.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BRITAIN'S SHOCK TROOPS RAID THE ENEMY COAST

THE COMMANDOS, specially trained troops for raiding enemy-occupied territory, are causing great unrest in German garrisons, through their lightning raids on the coasts of Norway and France. The Germans never know where the British Commandos will strike next. Here they are practising an assault exercise with their special flat-bottomed landing craft.

[emblem:] FOR FREEDOM
[sheet mark:] E.A. 1.
```

[← Britain's R.A.F. of the Future in Training Now](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britains-raf-of-the-future-in-training-now-uk-1939/) [Britain's Wartime Wardrobe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britains-wartime-wardrobe-uk-1939/)

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