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(“Youth Reference” freelance writer Zhang Lu-sheng)

left before the first battle of the British special forces, eat the meal, “Only the King can enjoy the food,” “look That posture, just as we like to be on the gallows. ”

British Royal Air Force Special Air Service regiment (SAS), has been considered the ace of trump card, the war in Libya in the color performance. SAS is also the 70th anniversary of the birth of this year. Interestingly, in reading the history of the British media files, it does not focus on rendering the force of the prominent military exploits, and have actually suffered setbacks when its fledgling defeat even more interested.

first battle fruitless

According to the British “Daily Mail” message, a book entitled “War, 1941-1945, SAS log,” the book recently published, disclosed a number of valuable pictures and text information. As the world one of the oldest special forces, SAS was born at a time when Nazi Germany’s Afrika Korps rampant Sahara, Egypt would be critical to fire fighting time. Faced with increasingly severe situation, the first commander, led by David Stirling, SAS in North Africa, launched a number of infiltration and sabotage operations.

70 years ago November 16, SAS set up after the first official mission started, just choose locations in Libya. As planned, the assault team members will be reduced to an airport at night umbrella, as much as possible to blow up parked on the runway of the German and Italian aircraft. Higher remind special troops, “the most important thing is not to be aware of the enemy.”

Despite high hopes, Bennett soldiers involved in this action is not proud. He wrote, people eat a meal before departure, “Only the King can enjoy the food,” “Look at posture, just as we like to be on the gallows.”

God seems intent on making things difficult for the inexperienced novice, everyone just parachute into the preparation procedures, operational area of ??the wind on a sharp increase in sea parachute is more like the leaves, and made Bennett and ally confused. After landing, the soldiers are busy for a pass, because the take possession of a good parachute, “the sounds … … about the Nazi Afrika Korps could hear.”

landing there with 11 boxes filled with weapons and supplies, but in the confusion, only two returned. Rainstorm followed, again we destroyed most of the hard material collected – indeed sounds like a curse, you know, where the Libyan Sahara, rainfall rarely this time of year.

seeing a little time goes by, the sudden nature of special operations has gone, the British command can only be ordered to abandon the mission. Thus, the exhausted commandos who carried out again in the long sand sea for 36 hours of hard marching, only to catch a ride back to base. Because if you count the airborne before crash killed 15 members involved in the operation of the 65 commandos only 22 people get out, SAS array can be described as the initial futile.

“Fox Hunting” program halfway

Special Air Service regiment in North Africa as the main battlefield, the German Afrika Korps is of their arch rival, commander of the latter It is the official nickname “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel Field Marshal. Although there was no “beheading” the reference, however, the German name for the implementation of targeted killings, SAS is indeed seriously considered the option. July 1944, Special Forces Command, Brigadier General Mike Leo in a secret order explicitly asked: “trying to get rid of Rommel and General Staff officials.”

that time, Rommel has been transferred in France, the German Army Group B officers, the Allied offensive in continental Europe “King” action at a critical stage, his presence increasingly become a thorn in Command. Mike Leo wrote: “If the kidnapping of Rommel, and his thoughts back to the UK may be, will have a tremendous propaganda value … This plan involves finding an appropriate landing site, and entrenched in a short time if necessary.”

probably learned the lessons of previous failures, to this secret order to leave room for the camera to act, saying “he was kidnapped and killed easier than Rommel did so, rather to ensure a successful kill, than trying to kidnap He is better … … kidnapping but failed to communicate frequently, spend more manpower, and killed you can convey the news of carrier pigeons. ”

However, in four of the elite SAS soldiers getting ready to empty down to a castle in France a few hours before, suddenly heard a “stop action” message. It turned out that year on July 17, Rommel’s car was in the Normandy front air raid, he himself was seriously wounded, must be returned to Germany for treatment, and thus produce the operational command of the British so-called “Fox Hunting” plan with the of no more significance.

Rommel blessing in disguise, get away with the SAS track, but the so-called “Fu Xi disaster by V ‘, return to Germany he was involved in the assassination plot against Hitler, 3 months after trying to escape forced Hitler also hypocritically held a state funeral for him. A famous general, and it was put to death the leader of his loyalty, Allied intelligence learned while in the fortunate lament. Of course, SAS officers and men, such a good opportunity to own this name the lost, they may even regret forever.

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