Posted on 05/22/2021 12:45:20 AM PDT by knighthawk
Lieutenant George Lane was in big trouble. Bullets from German guns were flying all around him as he and Captain Roy Wooldridge hid in the surf, crouching for cover behind beach obstacles made of iron girders and praying not to be hit.
It was mid-May 1944, in northern France, three weeks before D-Day. They didn’t know whether the Nazi soldiers shooting blindly into the darkness were just letting off steam or if their secret mission to investigate a new type of German landmine had been compromised.
What they did know for sure was that if they were caught, they were dead men. Adolf Hitler’s Kommandobefehl edict stated that all captured Allied commandos like them were to be summarily executed.
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“. . . a Jewish ‘suicide squad’ called X Troop was set up by Winston Churchill . . .”
Islamic, Muslim terrorists have that technique down pat.
Yep
Your fiction detector should be going off.
Rommel had been injured many times, and apparently this strafing of his car was used as a coverup by German propagandists to hide the fact that Hitler was descending into paranoia and had ordered Rommel to die by his own hand or stand trial for treason.
Its questionable to use Nazi talking points in a historical movie.
The trigger discipline in 3 of the 4 is VERY BAD!
Reese, I have read several other accounts of the X Troop and while there may be a bit of embellishment in the book, nothing in this excerpt twigs my BS detector.
See above.
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