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by Gavin Mortimer


  ENDNOTES

  INTRODUCTION

  1. Alan Hoe, David Stirling (Warner Books, 1994)

  2. Lecture broadcast on BBC March 1945, Mike Calvert Papers, Imperial War Museum

  ANDERS LASSEN

  1. Brook Richards, interview with the Imperial War Museum

  2. Mike Langley, Anders Lassen of the SAS (New English Library, 1988)

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Ibid

  8. Stephen Hastings, Drums of Memory (Pen & Sword, 1994)

  9. Langley, Anders Lassen of the SAS

  10. Ibid

  11. Interview with the author, July 2002

  12. John Lodwick, The Filibusters (Methuen & Co., 1947)

  13. Interview with the author

  14. Langley, Anders Lassen of the SAS

  15. Ibid

  16. Ibid

  17. Interview with the author

  18. Ibid

  19. Ibid

  20. Ibid

  21. Ken Smith, interview with the Imperial War Museum

  22. Ibid

  23. Ibid

  24. Ibid

  25. Langley, Anders Lassen of the SAS

  26. Ibid

  27. Ken Smith, interview with the Imperial War Museum

  28. Langley, Anders Lassen of the SAS

  DAVID STIRLING

  1. Gavin Mortimer, Stirling’s Men (Cassell, 2004)

  2. Alan Hoe, David Stirling (Warner Books, 1994)

  3. Johnny Cooper, One of the Originals (Pan, 1991)

  4. Hoe, David Stirling

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Public Record Office, Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43 (Public Record Office War Histories, 2001)

  8. David Stirling, Origins of the Special Air Service (SAS archives)

  9. Ibid

  10. Ibid

  11. Hamish Ross, Paddy Mayne (Sutton, 2003)

  12. Cooper, One of the Originals

  13. Stirling, Origins of the Special Air Service

  14. Public Record Office, Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43

  15. Interview with the author, 2001

  16. Interview with the author, 2003

  17. Public Record Office, Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43

  18. Ibid

  19. Hoe, David Stirling

  20. Interview with the author, 2002

  21. Interview with the author, 1998

  22. Courtesy of interview with John Kane, 1997

  23. John Strawson, A History of the SAS Regiment (Guild, 1984)

  24. IInterview with the author, 2001

  25. Hoe, David Stirling

  26. Interview with the author, 2001

  27. Interview with the author, 2002

  28. Stirling, Origins of the Special Air Service

  29. Interview with the author, 2001

  30. Ibid

  31. Interview with the author, 2002

  32. Public Record Office, Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43

  33. Interview with the author, 2001

  34. Hoe, David Stirling

  35. Malcolm Pleydell, Born of the Desert (Greenhill Books, 2006)

  36. Brian Dillon, interview with the Imperial War Museum

  37. Hoe, David Stirling

  38. Interview with the author, 2002

  39. Ibid

  40. Gavin Mortimer, The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History (Osprey Publishing, 2011)

  41. Hoe, David Stirling

  42. Ibid

  43. Ibid

  EDSON RAFF

  1. Speech given by Raff at 1997 Airborne Awards and quoted at http://www.thedropzone.org

  2. Edson Raff, We Jumped to Fight (Eagle Books, 1944)

  3. Ibid

  4. Letter quoted in We Jumped to Fight

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Time magazine, 12 October 1942

  8. Raff, We Jumped to Fight

  9. Ibid

  10. Ibid

  11. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (The John Hopkins University Press, 1997)

  12. By kind permission of Patrick O’Donnell

  EVANS CARLSON

  1. John Wukovits, American Commando (Caliber, 2009)

  2. Ibid

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Reader’s Digest, December 1943

  8. Wukovits, American Commando

  9. Ibid

  10. General Merrill Twining, No Bended Knee (Presido, 1994)

  11. Oscar Peatross, Bless ’em all (ReView Publications, 1995)

  ROBERT FREDERICK

  1. Howitzer Year Book, available to view at http://www.e-yearbook.com

  2. Robert Adleman and George Walton, The Devil’s Brigade (Corgi, 1968)

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Ibid

  8. Ibid

  9. Stars and Stripes, February 1944

  10. US National Archives

  11. Clarke Lee, International News Service, date unknown

  PADDY MAYNE

  1. Gavin Mortimer, Fields of Glory (Andre Deutsch, 2001)

  2. Ibid

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Gavin Mortimer, Stirling’s Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)

  6. Gavin Mortimer, The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History (Osprey Publishing, 2011)

  7. Courtesy of an interview with John Kane, 1997

  8. Interview with the author, 2002

  9. Malcom Pleydell, Born of the Desert (Greenhill Books, 2006)

  10. Interview with the author, 1998

  11. Interview with the author, 2003

  12. John Byrne, The General Salutes a Soldier (Hale, 1986)

  13. Mortimer, Fields of Glory

  14. Pleydell, Born of the Desert

  15. Mortimer, Stirling’s Men

  16. Ibid

  17. Ibid

  18. Ibid

  19. Ibid

  20. Ibid

  21. Mortimer, The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History

  22. Interview with the author, 2002

  23. Mortimer, The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History

  24. Interview with the author, 2002

  25. Interview with the author, 2003

  26. Interview with the author, 2003

  27. Interview with the author, 2002

  28. The Times, 9 November 2009

  29. Mortimer, Stirling’s Men

  30. Michael Calvert, Fighting Mad (Pen & Sword, 2004)

  31. Mortimer, The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History

  32. Hamish Ross, Paddy Mayne (Sutton 2003)

  33. Mars and Minerva, April 1956

  RALPH BAGNOLD

  1. Julian Thompson, The War Behind Enemy Lines (Pan, 1999)

  2. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ralph Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (Springer, 1971)

  7. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  8. Ibid

  9. Ibid

  10. Ibid

  11. Ibid

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid

  14. Ibid

  15. Thompson, The War Behind Enemy Lines

  16. Ibid

  17. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  18. Ibid

  19. Thompson, The War Behind Enemy Lines

  20. Les Sullivan interview with the Imperial War Museum

  21. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  22. Ibid

  23. Ibid

  24. Les Sullivan interview with the Imperial War Museum

  25. Ibid

  26. David Lloyd-Owen, The Long Range Desert Group: Providence their guide (Harap, 1980)

  27. Interview with the author, 2003 />
  28. Public Record Office, Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43 (Public Record Office War Histories, 2001)

  29. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  JUNIO VALERIO BORGHESE

  1. The Times, 3 September 1974

  2. Junio Valerio Borghese, Sea Devils (Naval Institute Press, 1995)

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Interview with Emilio Bianchi at http://www.regiamarina.net.

  6. Ibid

  7. Borghese, Sea Devils

  8. Interview with Emilio Bianchi

  9. Borghese, Sea Devils

  10. Ibid

  11. Interview with Emilio Bianchi

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid

  14. Borghese, Sea Devils

  15. Interview with Emilio Bianchi

  16. Borghese, Sea Devils

  17. Interview with Emilio Bianchi

  18. Reproduced in Borghese, Sea Devils

  19. Ibid

  20. William Schofield, Frogmen: First Battles (Branden Publishing, 1987)

  21. Reproduced in Borghese, Sea Devils

  22. Courtesy of www://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/borghese.xhtml

  BARON VON DER HEYDTE

  1. Samuel Mitcham Jr, Defenders of fortress Europe: the untold story of the German officers during the Allied Invasion (Potomac Books, 2009)

  2. Baron Friedrich von der Heydte, Return to Crete (WDL, 1959, translation by Stanley Moss)

  3. Ibid

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Ibid

  8. Ibid

  9. Ibid

  10. Franz Kurowski, Jump Into Hell (Stackpole Press, 2010)

  11. Ibid

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid

  14. Ibid

  ADRIAN VON FÖLKERSAM

  1. Interviews by Dr Heaten conducted with Hans-Dietrich Hossfelder in 1985 and 1994

  2. Ibid

  3. Otto Skorzeny, Skorzeny’s Special Missions (Greenhill Books, 2006)

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Ibid

  8. Ibid

  9. Ibid

  10. Ibid

  11. Ibid

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid

  14. Ibid

  15. Ibid

  16. Ibid

  17. Ibid

  18. Interviews by Dr Heaten conducted with Hans-Dietrich Hossfelder in 1985 and 1994

  ORDE WINGATE

  1. Kirby and Woodburn, The Official History, The War Against Japan, Volume III (London HMSO, 1961)

  2. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  3. Ibid

  4. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid

  7. Ibid

  8. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  9. Ibid

  10. Ibid

  11. Ibid

  12. Denis Gudgeon, Imperial War Museum Sound 2986

  13. Ibid

  14. Ibid

  15. Ibid

  16. Ibid

  17. Royle, Orde Wingate

  18. Available to view at http://www.chindits.info

  19. Michael Calvert, Fighting Mad (Pen & Sword, 2004)

  20. Bernard Fergusson, Beyond the Chindwin (Fontana, 1955)

  21. Calvert, Fighting Mad

  22. Fergusson, Beyond the Chindwin

  23. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  24. Ibid

  25. Ibid

  26. Draft narrative of operations of 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, CAB 106/46, National Archives

  27. A.D. Harvey, Collision of Empires: Britain in three world wars, 1793–1945 (Hambledon, 2003)

  28. Royle, Orde Wingate

  29. Calvert, Fighting Mad

  30. Harold Shippey, Imperial War Museum Sound 12164

  31. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  32. Calvert, Fighting Mad

  33. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  34. Ibid

  35. Calvert, Fighting Mad

  36. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum

  37. Letter from Slim to Major General Woodburn-Kirby, 1959, quoted in Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate

  38. John Masters, The Road Past Mandalay (Phoenix, 2012)

  39. Royle, Orde Wingate

  CHARLES HUNTER

  1. John Masters, The Road Past Mandalay (Phoenix, 2012)

  2. Ibid

  3. Charlton Ogburn, The Marauders (The Overlook Press, 2002)

  4. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)

  5. Ogburn, The Marauders

  6. Masters, The Road Past Mandalay

  7. Royle, Orde Wingate

  8. West Point ‘Howitzer’ Yearbook, Class of 1929

  9. Ogburn, The Marauders

  10. Ibid

  11. Ibid

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid

  14. Ibid

  15. Charles Newton Hunter, Galahad (Naylor Co., 1963)

  16. Ogburn, The Marauders

  17. Ibid

  18. Ibid

  19. Ibid

  20. Ibid

  21. Hunter, Galahad

  22. Masters, The Road Past Mandalay

  23. Ibid

  24. Ogburn, The Marauders

  25. Masters, The Road Past Mandalay

  26. Ogburn, The Marauders

  GLOSSARY

  88mm a German anti-tank and anti-aircraft gun

  AA anti-aircraft

  Abwehr the German military intelligence organization

  BAR Browning Automatic Rifle

  Brandenburgers German Special Forces unit

  Bren gun Czech-derived British light machine gun with a range of 2,000 yards

  C-47 aircraft a military transport aircraft manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company

  CAA Civil Aviation Authority

  Caique a Greek fishing boat used by the Special Boat Squadron

  CO commanding officer

  DCM Distinguished Conduct Medal, the equivalent of the DSO – second only to the VC – and awarded to NCOs and other ranks

  DSO Distinguished Service Order, the second highest British military decoration for officers

  DZ drop zone, for paratroopers and supplies

  EAM National Liberation Front, a left-wing political movement in Greece composed predominantly of Communists

  EDAS National Republican Greek League, a non-communist Greek resistance group

  ELAS Greek People’s Liberation Army and the military arm of the EAM

  Fallschirmjäger German parachute regiment

  Führer German for leader, the title given to Adolf Hitler

  Garand the .30 calibre M1 Garand was the semiautomatic rifle issued to US troops

  Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei, the secret police force of Nazi Germany

  GHQ General Headquarters

  Gurkhas Nepalese soldiers who have served in the British Army for nearly 200 years

  Italian Gold Medal a medal awarded to Italian junior officers and soldiers for deeds of outstanding gallantry in war

  Italian Silver Medal a medal awarded to Italian junior officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in combat

  Iron Cross a German military decoration categorized into first and second class

  Knight’s Cross of the superior to the Iron Cross and awarded for

  Iron Cross outstanding bravery or leadership in the face of the enemy

  LCA Landing Craft Assault, 12m-long vessel capable of carrying 35 men

  Légion d’honneur the highest decoration in France, divided into five categories

  LRDG Long Range Desert Group

  MC Military Cross

  Medal of Honor the highest military decoration awarded by the United States

  MEHQ Middle East Headquarters

  NCO non-commissioned officer

  petrol bowser a petrol tanker

  ‘pigs’ I
talian term for human torpedoes

  RAF Royal Air Force

  RTU’d Returned to Unit

  SAS Special Air Service

  SBS Special Boat Squadron

  SFHQ Special Forces Headquarters

  SHAEF Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

  Sherman the M4 Sherman was the most common tank of the US Army

  SOE Special Operations Executive

  SRS Special Raiding Squadron

  SS Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary force of Nazi Germany

  SSRF Small Scale Raiding Force

  Tommy gun Thompson sub-machine gun

  VC Victoria Cross

  Vickers K rapid-firing machine gun designed for aircraft and later used by the SAS

  wadi a dry river bed in the desert that contains water only when it rains heavily

  WAAF Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

  Waffen SS the military force of the Schutzstaffel

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

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  Ambrose, Stephen¸ Band of Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 1992)

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  Hunter, Charles Newton, Galahad (Naylor Co., 1963)

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