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The landings went according to plan at Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, and by evening the lodgments were secure. But at Omaha, the American V Corps hung by a thread.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Randolph joined a parachute detachment of the Special Air Service (SAS) formed by Major David Stirling to fight behind enemy lines in the Western Desert.
Andrew Roberts • Churchill: Walking with Destiny
While the army the United States eventually dispatched to Europe was large, it was nothing like as powerful as would have been necessary had the Western Allies been obliged to fulfil the principal role in defeating Germany. As a corollary of this, once Russia’s survival and fighting power became plain in 1943, the American chiefs of staff felt able
... See moreMax Hastings • Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Moyar, Mark. Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43
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First In Last Out: The Post-war Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos
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