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...Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly-Knopf...
...Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...
...training of the S.S.F. never ended. Its troops learned all the commando tricks. They learned to march 57 miles in 24 hours with full packs. They became ski troops, qualified as parachutists, were whisked from Vermont to Florida to Montana to find the right ground for learning new skills...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, now an infantry instructor at Fort Benning, overstayed a furlough in Pittsburgh by six days, was hailed before a court-martial. The officer-judges sentenced the holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor to: $90 fine, 90 days confinement to camp. Asked Kelly: "Can I go to the movies?" Said the court-martial : Yes, if the movies are in the camp...