 On the night of 27 February , ' C ' Company , 2nd Parachute Battalion , under the command of Major John Frost , parachuted into France a few miles from the installation . The force then proceeded to assault the villa in which the radar equipment was kept , killing several members of the German garrison and capturing the installation after a brief fire @-@ fight . A technician that had come with the force partially dismantled the Würzburg radar array and removed several key pieces to take back to Britain , the raiding force then retreated to the evacuation beach . The detachment assigned to clear the beach had failed to do so , however , and another brief fire @-@ fight was required to eliminate the Germans guarding the beach . The raiding force was then picked up by a small number of landing craft and transferred to several Motor Gun Boats which brought them back to Britain . The raid was entirely successful . The airborne troops suffered only a few casualties , and the pieces of the radar they brought back , along with a German radar technician , allowed British scientists to understand German advances in radar and to create counter @-@ measures to neutralise those advances . 
