SAS Trooper: Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy-Occupied France and Italy - Hardcover

Mackay, Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848843992 ISBN 13: 9781848843998

Verlag: PEN & SWORD MILITARY, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A prewar Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Africa until he returned to the UK for parachute training. He volunteered and joined 2 SAS in Scotland. His first operation was in France (Op RUPERT) cutting railway lines, and he then took park in Operation LOYTON, now in armed jeeps. His next assignment (Operation ZOMBIE) involved parachuting into the Italian Dolomites to disrupt the vital German link north of Verona between Italy and Austria.This operation ended in failure due to foolhardy leadership, inadequate manning and poor preparation. His OC was captured, tortured and executed but Charlie escaped to live with the partisans before being repatriated to the UK. After the war he returned to France to help with the exhumation and reburial of SAS men executed in the Vosges mountains. Postwar he served in Kenya and Somaliland and briefly recounts his experiences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PEN & SWORD MILITARY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848843992
• ISBN 13: 9781848843998
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
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