 Editor in Chief Bill   | 16 Nov 2018 9:44 p.m. PST |
Do you have a favorite historical raid from military history? |
| Wackmole9 | 16 Nov 2018 9:50 p.m. PST |
st. Nazare is my favorite |
 miniMo  | 16 Nov 2018 10:46 p.m. PST |
Hmmm, Favorite = Buccleuch's raid on Carlisle Castle to free Kinmont Willie, 1596. Honourable Mentions: Modern:
Entebbe, 1976 WW2:
Sidi Haneish Airfield, 1942 |
| Thresher01 | 17 Nov 2018 12:01 a.m. PST |
Hmmmm, quite a few: Ploesti – 1st one Schweinfurt-Regensburg – 8th AF 1st Berlin Raid (actually the 2nd) by the 8th AF Fiction – Cockleshell Heroes X-Subs vs. Tirpitz U-47 at Scapa Flow Falklands – Raid on Pebble Island: link Raid on Alexandria in 1941 by Italian divers: link Those are just some that spring to mind, right now. |
| foxweasel | 17 Nov 2018 2:33 a.m. PST |
Thresher01, Cockleshell heroes wasn't fiction, or did you mean the film, which was actually very accurate. link |
| ZULUPAUL | 17 Nov 2018 2:42 a.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 17 Nov 2018 2:57 a.m. PST |
Count András Hadik de Futak's raid on Berlin i 1757. |
| UshCha | 17 Nov 2018 3:46 a.m. PST |
The Bruneval raid (Operation Biting) British commando raid to gets parts from a German radar. Para landing and sea evacuation and it worked. I have done games based on this on a couple of 8 by 6 boards. The real trick is to get really cautious generals in the right place to model the real commanders. |
 martinjpayne1964 | 17 Nov 2018 4:10 a.m. PST |
Operation Ivory Coast / Kingpin – Son Tay raid 1970. |
 etotheipi  | 17 Nov 2018 4:27 a.m. PST |
Harper's Ferry
The entire career of the Lioness of Brittany |
 Herkybird | 17 Nov 2018 5:05 a.m. PST |
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| Garryowen | 17 Nov 2018 5:11 a.m. PST |
Son Tay POW camp 23 miles from Hanoi. Led by the legendary COL Arthur D. "Bull" Simons. It was a dry hole, but after the released POWs returned, they said that when they learned of it their morale soared knowing the attempt had been made. Also the routine brutality diminished very significantly and their treatment by the North Vietnamese captors improved markedly. Tom |
| rustymusket | 17 Nov 2018 5:25 a.m. PST |
The Doolittle raid on Japan. It seemed so audacious for the time. |
| jurgenation | 17 Nov 2018 6:45 a.m. PST |
Entebbe and San Grasso ,Skorzeny and his boys. |
 Legion 4  | 17 Nov 2018 8:41 a.m. PST |
Son Tay Cabanatuan Entebbe UBL – AQ : 0 , SEALs : 1+ UBL's one son, KIA'd, and 2 other AQ members, AFAIK. |
| David Manley | 17 Nov 2018 9:23 a.m. PST |
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| shirleys painting | 17 Nov 2018 9:28 a.m. PST |
Son Tay. My Father in law was the number 2 man on the "back up list", and my husband and his family did'nt know about it until after he passed. John's Father was a Silver Star(Valor) winner with 27 months in Vietnam. He was a good man. |
| robert piepenbrink | 17 Nov 2018 12:28 p.m. PST |
I'm partial to the second capture of General Richard Prescott ("not so much an officer as a medium of exchange.") Quick, successful and about bloodless. But really it's an RPG. As a miniature battle generator, the Hammelburg Raid (Task Force Baum) and, if it counts, The Duke of Brunswick's march to the sea in 1809. But Brunneval is also an excellent one-off, and if you've got enough cavalry, Grierson is another very nice battle generator. |
| jdginaz | 17 Nov 2018 1:04 p.m. PST |
Greirson's raid Son Tay raid Cabanatuan rescue Doolittle's Raid |
| William Warner | 17 Nov 2018 1:10 p.m. PST |
St. Nazaire Zeebrugge Price's Raid through Missouri in 1864 |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 17 Nov 2018 11:18 p.m. PST |
I've always been interested in and amused by the Jameson Raid. In fiction, the raid at the center of Heaven's Gate has some similarities to the Jameson Raid. |
| KSmyth | 18 Nov 2018 7:22 a.m. PST |
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| Chuckaroobob | 18 Nov 2018 8:26 a.m. PST |
Operation Certain Death
Aka Barras in Sierra Leone 2000.
Even ran a game based on it. |
| Patrick Sexton | 20 Nov 2018 11:13 a.m. PST |
Doolittle Son Tay St. Nazaire Entebbe |
| Old Contemptibles | 21 Nov 2018 4:14 a.m. PST |
The Great Locomotive Chase The Dambusters Raid The Bin Laden Raid Operation Entebbe Doolittle Raid The St. Nazaire Raid The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as The Great Raid. Norwegian heavy water raid (The Telemark Raid) The Great Raid of 1840: The largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States. link Operation Prime Chance – 1987-1989 Operation Nifty Package – 1989 Operation Gothic Serpent – 1992 The Gran Sasso raid aka Operation Eiche ("Oak"), the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini by German paratroopers led by Major Otto-Harald Mors and Waffen-SS commandos in September 1943. Morgan's Great Raid: Morgan's Raid was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the northern U.S. states of Indiana and Ohio during the American Civil War. Stoneman's 1865 Raid: One of the longest cavalry raids in history – a raid that would cover as much as two thousand miles across six Confederate states. Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence Kansas Canadian Raid at Petite Douve Farm, November 1915. Raid on Fort Eben-Emael Operation Frankton Italian raid on Alexandra, December 19, 1941 Operation Vengeance, April 17, 1943 Sinking the Tirpitz SAS raid on the German airfield at Fuka. |
