Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index During World War II, Operation Samwest was a large raid conducted by 116 members of the 4th French Parachute Battalion who jumped in near Le Blond, Brittany on the night of 6 June, 1944. The local German defenders attacked the group on 12 June, scattering the team. The survivors linked up with the Dingson team. See Overlord. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.