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Chapter 4 Draper Kauffman and the Course That Cracked the Atlantic Wall, Then Laid the First Bricks of the Legend of Naval Special Warfare

And that was enough. In early 1954, only five months after Unit 101 had been established, Dayan merged it with the Paratroopers Brigade, with Sharon as one of the battalion commanders. Dayan believed that Unit 101 had become a model—of training and discipline, of dedication and skill—that Sharon could replicate with the paratroops and then in the

In the early hours of July 3, 2014, two Black Hawks full of Delta operators crossed the border from Jordan into Syria, flying fast across the desert. Their destination was a compound outside the town of Raqqa, on the north bank of the Euphrates in north-central Syria. It was there, U.S. intelligence analysts believed, that a group calling itself

Before the invasion of Tarawa—the central island of the Gilbert Island thrust—the Navy’s hydrographic analysis showed that on the morning of assault the coral reef that surrounded the island would only be submerged to a depth of four feet six inches. A fully loaded Higgins Boat had a draft of four feet—just enough. When it was discovered, however,