Reactions to the Bruneval Raid
A question posed on the Independent Company Facebook page, ‘ Which of the two, the Bruneval or the Doolittle Raid, was more important from a strictly PR/Morale standpoint?’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Biting 2nd March 1942 Nottingham Evening Post If someone has the time and resources this would make a great MA Thesis. I thought one way of measuring it would be to look at three daily papers to see how much they covered it and for how long. I picked one national [Daily Mirror] and two regional papers with solid readerships [Nottingham Evening Post and Manchester Evening News]. I started with the Nottingham Evening Post and was surprised by how little coverage it got. Reports begin on 2nd March 1942 and are, more or less, Bruneval is ok but what is happening in Java is much more important. The raid gets mentioned four more times between March and June 1942, but is often as a ‘and this person was involved in all these things including…...