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Which would you say were the most daring Commando/Special Forces raids in WWII, both Axis and Allied?
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Allied: Raid at Cabanatuan
How about "Carlson's Raiders" and their well known 31 day patrol (4Nov--4Dec 1942) behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, usually referred to as "The Long Patrol." Thought to be the longest WWII patrol of its kind, it resulted in 488 enemy killed, and 16 killed and 18 wounded for the 2d Raider Battalion.
THAT, must have been some patrol!
Marine Raiders on Bougainville, New Guinea, January 1944.
I'll add "Operation Jaywick" conducted by Z special Unit into the mix for the Allied side. Operation Jaywick - 60th Anniversary
Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's commando leader in World War 2, became known to the world in September 1943, when German radio broadcasts hailed the previously unknown Skorzeny as "The most dangerous man in Europe" for his key role in the daring airborne raid to rescue the ousted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
It was Skorzeny's 1st success as a commando leader. With the successes that followed, allied media also began calling Skorzeny "The most dangerous man in Europe".
Bruneval. St Nazaire how are these raids overlooked?
nope not at all just my alzheimers won't let me have that type of recallIn the second post...
do you have me blocked Mr Lead foot?
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St. Nazaire....is that where they rammed the boat into the only Atlantic drydock capable of holding the Bismark (or one of Germany's bigger ships); commandos all were eventually captured and the Germans thought the mission a colossal failure until the timed charges in the ship went off completely demolishing the drydock gates, rendering it unusable and pretty much confining that German ship to the north where it had access to a German drydock?
What gets me is that these men undertook these missions knowing that the odds of them surviving were so slim that they weren't worth calculating. And yet they still did the missions...