"Operation Ginny: How Nazi Germany Crushed America " Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Jan 2018 10:34 p.m. PST |
… during a Secret World War II Raid. "During the North Africa campaign, OSS operatives organized warrior tribesmen into a guerrilla force to guard against a possible Axis thrust through Spanish Morocco into the Allied rear. During landings on the Italian mainland at Salerno, an OSS detachment provided Colonel William O. Darby's Rangers with critical tactical intelligence during their defense of the Sorrentino peninsula. The activities of OSS agents soon came to the attention of General Mark Clark, commander of the Allied Fifth Army, who gave them vehicles, rations, and a free hand to operate. In February 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe, agreed to allow the OSS's Special Operations staff to employ four to eight commando cells to organize and assist guerrilla forces in Italy and southern France. During the fall of 1943, these newly arrived operational groups began to look for offshore islands on which to establish bases for raids against the German-held northern coastline. After the Italian surrender, an OSS unit joined a French expeditionary force to take the island of Corsica. The German garrison was already withdrawing to the mainland, so the OSS groups established advance bases on Corsica as well as the nearby islands of Gorgona and Caprais. At Corsica, they were only 35 miles from the Italian coast…"
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| deephorse | 21 Jan 2018 2:46 a.m. PST |
A tragic story but a rather over dramatic headline. |
 Legion 4   | 21 Jan 2018 9:05 a.m. PST |
Sadly … a number of times special ops troops, commandos, etc. were executed by the Germans and even the Japanese when captured. E.g. the UK Commandos who went to destroy the plant the Nazi's were using to make Heavy Water in Norway. The RM Cdos captured by the Nazis, during a raid on a French port filled with KM, etc. vessels … aka the "Cockshell Heroes". 8 USMC Raiders captured during the Makin Island Raid executed by IJF. Some of Dolittle's Raiders executed by the IJF. And there were many more … sadly … On the other hand, the US Army executed some of Skorenzy's men captured wearing US uniforms during the Battle of the Bulge.
Spec Op missions certainly adds a some more risk to an already "risky business". May they all RIP. Knowing they did their duty … |
| deephorse | 21 Jan 2018 3:29 p.m. PST |
"Cockshell Heroes" Cockleshell Heroes. |
| Legion 4 | 22 Jan 2018 6:49 a.m. PST |
Doh !!! You are correct ! My badd ! Thank you ! I'm still blaming auto-correct ! |
| deephorse | 22 Jan 2018 8:02 a.m. PST |
It autocorrected to "Cockshell"? Good grief, what's in your dictionary? |
| Legion 4 | 22 Jan 2018 8:24 a.m. PST |
Hey … I have Windows 10 ? What can I tell ya ?!?  |
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makes corrections when some models don't turn out the way he expected!
