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When Toreson, having killed the Nazi commander, escapes to England to lead back a Commando expedition, the mood of the picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...
...Coward. The Royal Navy helped in its making, saw that naval details were correct down to the last pompom. Its hero is widely supposed, though Coward has denied it, to be Coward's friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, who commanded and lost a destroyer (H.M.S. Kelly) before he became Commando-in-Chief. Coward plays the part...
Ashore, he confronted Brigadier General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who took a surprised look at his superior and quickly gave him his own pants. Shortly thereafter a British Commando captain happened by and snickered to see General Lemnitzer clad only in a blouse. No record was kept of the discussion, but in the end General Lemnitzer walked off in the captain's pants...
Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...
...duty in North Africa: with a reconnaissance unit, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt; with a commando unit, Captain Randolph Churchill...