Commandos and Rangers of World War II
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Permission to quote from these books on the following pages is gratefully acknowledged:
The Spearheaders—pp 142, 146, 147, 175, 237;
War in the shadows—p 326;
Chindits—pp 298, 372;
S.O.E. in France—p 236;
The War against Japan—p 308;
The US Marines and Amphibians War—p 130;
Haste to Battle—pp 10, 263, 283;
Gauntlet to Overlord—p 170;
The Greatest Raid of All—pp 55, 56, 62;
The Green Beret—pp 63, 108, 110, 114, 116, 117, 169, 228, 238, 300;
re friar, 238, 262;
Defeat into Victory—p 322;
Special Marine Corps Units of World War II—pp 123, 128;
Waugh Diaries—pp 157, 158;
War Commando—pp 40, 113, 120, 142, 172, 179, 180, 183, 212–215;
Swiftly they Struck—pp 210, 261, 262;
Clash by Night—p 112;
Anders Lassen VC—233–234;
Love and War in the Apennines—pp 161, 162;
The Battery—p 113;
Guadalcanal Report 1942—pp 131–134;
Anzio—p 222.
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank all those individuals and organisations who have helped in the preparation of this book and in particular: the Australian War Memorial Trust; Mr S. J. (Sonnie) Bissell; Mr Henry Brown, MBE, secretary of the Commando Association; Mr T. Charman; Captain N. Clogstoun-Willmott, DSO, DSC,* RN; Major-General E. C. Cole, CB, CBE; Miss S. K. Connett for secretarial work; Mr J. Davidson; Major A. J. Donald RM, Royal Marines archivist and his staff; Major-General H. D. Fellowes, CB. DSO; Mr D. J. Flunder, MC; Mr Geoffrey V. Galwey; General Sir Campbell R. Hardy, KCB, CBE, DSO**; the Historical Branch, United States Marine Corps; the Historical Services Division, United States Army; Major-General G. C. Horton, CB, OBE; the Imperial War Museum, London; Colonel A. J. Leahy, OBE, Royal Signals (retd); Major-General J. L. Moulton, CB, DSO, OBE; Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, PG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO; the National Maritime Museum, London; the National Archives and Records Service, Washington; Mr J. W. Nicholson and Camper & Nicholsons Ltd; Nottingham Central Library; Mr Bruce Ogden-Smith, DCM, MM; Brigadier D. W. O’Flaherty, CBE, DSO; Colonel J. F. Parsons, OBE, MC, RM; Mr Harold Perlmutter Ranger Bn Association; Mr A. M. Preston, historian; the Public Records Office, London; Ranger Department, United States Army, Fort Benning, Georgia; the Royal Engineers Corps library; the Royal Navy Submarine Museum; Mr A. Spark, the artist; Mr Michael Stevens, the editor, for his encouragement and advice; Rev Dr Albert T. Tovey, DD, Executive Secretary of the Ranger Bn Association; Ms Judy Tuke, the book’s designer; Mr S. Weatherall; the Wilkinson Sword Company Ltd; Brigadier P. Young, DSO, MC, MA, FRGS.
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[*]Figures given in the detailed study of the raid by C.E. Lucas Phillips: The Greatest Raid of All—William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1958.
[*]M. C. McDougall: Swiftly They Struck; the Story of 4 Commando—Odhams Press, London, 1954.
[*]Robert B. Asprey: War In The Shadows. Macdonald and Jane’s, London, 1976.