Commando History
Ian McHargCommando History by Ian McHarg delves into the tough training, daring raids, and indomitable fighting spirit of the Second World War Commandos and other wartime Special Forces.
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Lt. George Knowland VC - Magnificent Heroism on Hill 170
Firing a 2-inch mortar from the hip, Lieutenant George Knowland repelled wave after wave of Japanese fighters during the defence of Hill 170 near Kangaw, Burma. For his ‘magnificent heroism’, the twenty-two-year-old commando was awarded the...
Commando Canoeists - Operation JV
Eight months before the attack on the French port of Bordeaux by the men later immortalised as the Cockleshell Heroes, a less well-known, equally daring, and arguably more successful raid was carried out by two canoeists from No. 6 Commando...
Dick Holmes and Duggie Pomford - Legends of the SBS
Dick Holmes, on the left, and Duggie Pomford were both awarded the Military Medal while serving with the Special Boat Squadron during the Second World War.
Dick Holmes MM and Duggie Pomford MM*
In the early hours of 23 June 1943, the men...
Sergeant Tommy Durrant VC - The Commando Who Refused to Surrender.
For his “great gallantry, skill and devotion to duty” during the St. Nazaire Raid in March 1942, Sergeant Tommy Durrant of No. 1 Commando and the Royal Engineers was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
Sergeant Tommy Durrant VC
Havin...
No. 2 Commando: Britain's First Special Air Service (SAS)
No.2 Commando were Britain’s first airborne troops and the unit was the first to be designated as the Special Air Service (SAS).
In June 1940 Winston Churchill called for a corps of 5,000 paratroopers. Ringway, near Manchester, was iden...
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