Word: commandomen
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Home Is The Place. In the second year the Home Guard achieved tighter organization, closer liaison with the Army and cooperation with the War Office, which was impressed by the caliber of Commandomen graduated from the Home Guard. These things gave the Guard a new role that no one dreamed of two years ago. The use of the Home Guard on coastal anti-aircraft guns, in troop transport and in joint field maneuvers indicated what the Government had in mind: shifting the burden of the defense of Britain on to the Home Guard, so that an army...
...cooperation between sea and land forces. Syfret's guns opened up on Diégo-Suarez' batteries as the landing parties set out for shore. His planes, presumably from a carrier, swept in and blasted a way for them. Sturges' mixed force of Marines and Commandomen piled out on the beach and plowed in from west and north, spearheaded by light tanks and aided by parachute troops...
...clammy Channel mist hung chilly over Boulogne as the British ships sneaked inshore. In the murk of the early morning, the Commandomen, their faces daubed with jet black war paint like fantastic military minstrels, splashed into the surf and slipped ashore...
...Commandomen split up into patrols and fanned out to cut Nazi communications, searchlights picked up the British speedboats, and soon tracer bullets. Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them. German flak (antiaircraft) ships moved in to the attack. Ashore, while whistles blew and signal lights blinked, the Commandomen moved silently about their business...