Sublime

Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Wrangel Clarke was forty-one that late 1940, having been born in Johannesburg on April 27, 1899.

It might make things easier if he went down to London again and found Marlowe. Report in, like a good soldier. But he swore he wouldn’t work for Marlowe again. Not after Malaya.

After being briefed by Stirling on an impending attack on Benghazi, and the way that the SAS represented ‘a new form of warfare’ which had ‘awesome potential’, Churchill quoted to Smuts the lines from Byron’s Don Juan: ‘He was the mildest-mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.’ The next day, he summoned Stirling to the Embassy to d

With the bulk of the German armor deployed against the British Second Army at Caen, Collins’s VII Corps sliced across the Cotentin Peninsula and reached the sea on June 18, isolating the port of Cherbourg and its defenders. Collins turned north and a week later Cherbourg capitulated, sending 39,042 German troops into Allied captivity.

A legendary battlefield commander, Leclerc was most famous for fighting his way north with a Free French force 420 miles from Fort Lamy in Chad to join the British Eighth Army in the Sahara in February 1941.

In World War II, Eisenhower made Davis his adjutant general both in North Africa and at SHAEF. Davis accompanied Ike to Russia in 1945, and served as the Army’s assistant adjutant general from 1946 until his retirement in 1953.

Jan Christiaan Smuts,

The 101st Airborne Division, which had already been alerted, was ready for action. Eisenhower instructed Taylor to send the 101st to Little Rock immediately.