 Operations No.1 Commando participated in included Operation Chopper, a raid on the French coast on the night of 27/28 August 1941.There followed Operation Myrmidion, a raid on Bayonne over the period of 2–7 April 1942 which was eventually aborted.The commando next supplied a troop for the St. Nazaire Raid, a successful attack on the heavily defended docks of St. Nazaire in France on the night of 28 March 1942.