Editing Operation Basalt (section)

==Subsequent Raids==
The actor, [[David Niven]], who participated in Channel raids, stated in his autobiography ''[[The Moon's a Balloon]]'' that the commandos who landed on Sark were taken to the local pub by the locals for a drink.  However, Niven also erroneously stated that there were no German troops on Sark at the time.  Niven's account is almost certainly a reference to [[Operation Ambassador]] in July 1940, when 140 men from No. 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company landed on Little Sark by mistake, thinking they had landed on Guernsey as part of a larger force.  They found no Germans and eventually returned to their boat, but there are no reports of them meeting with locals or drinking with them.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

More than a year later, in December 1943, there was a follow-up raid on Sark by a team of British and French commandos, known as [[Operation Hardtack (commando raid)|Operation Hardtack 7]].  It was a complete failure, as two of the four men were killed by German mines as they attempted to cross the Hog's Back, following the same route as the commandos had done in 1942 — a known route which was now heavily mined.{{fact|date=October 2024}}