Word: commandos
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...were its Nazi overlords. The New York Times heard last week that a full 90% of the French people were sick of collaboration with Germany. They had had both provocation and inspiration. There had been the ascendancy of the hated Pierre Laval in Vichy and the flashing British Commando raid on St.-Nazaire. The Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were...
Leading them was tall (6 ft. 4 in.), curly-haired, 30-year-old Major the Lord Lovat, famed Scottish horseman, whose Commando included men of Ulster, Palestine, Indian as well as Scottish and English regiments...
...time for action is near," General Marshall told the A.E.F. in Northern Ireland: "Inevitably there will be American troops in Commando raids...
...that nightmare of noise and flame, Old Buck kept her lethal bow shoved tight against her objective, while her crew swarmed ashore to battle its way to the gunboats ready to speed home. Many a Commando was left ashore; few of Old Buck's crew got away. Those who did escape heard, as they swept out of St.-Nazaire, the resonant boom of Old Buck blowing...
There was no doubt that the raid was costly. Dead were well over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass...