The Daring Dozen (43 page)
Authors: Gavin Mortimer
Tags: #The Daring Dozen: 12 Special Forces Legends of World War II
12
. Cooper,
One of the Originals
13
. Stirling,
Origins of the Special Air Service
14
. Public Record Office,
Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43
15
. Interview with the author, 2001
16
. Interview with the author, 2003
17
. Public Record Office,
Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43
18
. Ibid
19
. Hoe,
David Stirling
20
. Interview with the author, 2002
21
. Interview with the author, 1998
22
. Courtesy of interview with John Kane, 1997
23
. John Strawson,
A History of the SAS Regiment
(Guild, 1984)
24
. IInterview with the author, 2001
25
. Hoe,
David Stirling
26
. Interview with the author, 2001
27
. Interview with the author, 2002
28
. Stirling,
Origins of the Special Air Service
29
. Interview with the author, 2001
30
. Ibid
31
. Interview with the author, 2002
32
. Public Record Office,
Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43
33
. Interview with the author, 2001
34
. Hoe,
David Stirling
35
. Malcolm Pleydell,
Born of the Desert
(Greenhill Books, 2006)
36
. Brian Dillon, interview with the Imperial War Museum
37
. Hoe,
David Stirling
38
. Interview with the author, 2002
39
. Ibid
40
. Gavin Mortimer,
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
(Osprey Publishing, 2011)
41
. Hoe,
David Stirling
42
. Ibid
43
. Ibid
1
. Speech given by Raff at 1997 Airborne Awards and quoted at
http://www.thedropzone.org
2
. Edson Raff,
We Jumped to Fight
(Eagle Books, 1944)
3
. Ibid
4
. Letter quoted in
We Jumped to Fight
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
.
Time
magazine, 12 October 1942
8
. Raff,
We Jumped to Fight
9
. Ibid
10
. Ibid
11
. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(The John Hopkins University Press, 1997)
12
. By kind permission of Patrick O’Donnell
1
. John Wukovits,
American Commando
(Caliber, 2009)
2
. Ibid
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
.
Reader’s Digest
, December 1943
8
. Wukovits,
American Commando
9
. Ibid
10
. General Merrill Twining,
No Bended Knee
(Presido, 1994)
11
. Oscar Peatross,
Bless ’em all
(ReView Publications, 1995)
1
. Howitzer Year Book, available to view at
http://www.e-yearbook.com
2
. Robert Adleman and George Walton,
The Devil’s Brigade
(Corgi, 1968)
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
. Ibid
8
. Ibid
9
.
Stars and Stripes
, February 1944
10
. US National Archives
11
. Clarke Lee, International News Service, date unknown
1
. Gavin Mortimer,
Fields of Glory
(Andre Deutsch, 2001)
2
. Ibid
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Gavin Mortimer,
Stirling’s Men
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
6
. Gavin Mortimer,
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
(Osprey Publishing, 2011)
7
. Courtesy of an interview with John Kane, 1997
8
. Interview with the author, 2002
9
. Malcom Pleydell,
Born of the Desert
(Greenhill Books, 2006)
10
. Interview with the author, 1998
11
. Interview with the author, 2003
12
. John Byrne,
The General Salutes a Soldier
(Hale, 1986)
13
. Mortimer,
Fields of Glory
14
. Pleydell,
Born of the Desert
15
. Mortimer,
Stirling’s Men
16
. Ibid
17
. Ibid
18
. Ibid
19
. Ibid
20
. Ibid
21
. Mortimer,
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
22
. Interview with the author, 2002
23
. Mortimer,
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
24
. Interview with the author, 2002
25
. Interview with the author, 2003
26
. Interview with the author, 2003
27
. Interview with the author, 2002
28
.
The Times
, 9 November 2009
29
. Mortimer,
Stirling’s Men
30
. Michael Calvert,
Fighting Mad
(Pen & Sword, 2004)
31
. Mortimer,
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
32
. Hamish Ross,
Paddy Mayne
(Sutton 2003)
33
.
Mars and Minerva
, April 1956
1
. Julian Thompson,
The War Behind Enemy Lines
(Pan, 1999)
2
. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Ibid
6
. Ralph Bagnold,
The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes
(Springer, 1971)
7
. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge
8
. Ibid
9
. Ibid
10
. Ibid
11
. Ibid
12
. Ibid
13
. Ibid
14
. Ibid
15
. Thompson,
The War Behind Enemy Lines
16
. Ibid
17
. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge
18
. Ibid
19
. Thompson,
The War Behind Enemy Lines
20
. Les Sullivan interview with the Imperial War Museum
21
. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge
22
. Ibid
23
. Ibid
24
. Les Sullivan interview with the Imperial War Museum
25
. Ibid
26
. David Lloyd-Owen,
The Long Range Desert Group
:
Providence their guide
(Harap, 1980)
27
. Interview with the author, 2003
28
. Public Record Office,
Special Forces in the Desert War 1940–43
(Public Record Office War Histories, 2001)
29
. Bagnold Papers, Churchill Archives, Cambridge
1
.
The Times
, 3 September 1974
2
. Junio Valerio Borghese,
Sea Devils
(Naval Institute Press, 1995)
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Interview with Emilio Bianchi at
http://www.regiamarina.net
.
6
. Ibid
7
. Borghese,
Sea Devils
8
. Interview with Emilio Bianchi
9
. Borghese,
Sea Devils
10
. Ibid
11
. Interview with Emilio Bianchi
12
. Ibid
13
. Ibid
14
. Borghese,
Sea Devils
15
. Interview with Emilio Bianchi
16
. Borghese,
Sea Devils
17
. Interview with Emilio Bianchi
18
. Reproduced in Borghese,
Sea Devils
19
. Ibid
20
. William Schofield,
Frogmen: First Battles
(Branden Publishing, 1987)
21
. Reproduced in Borghese,
Sea Devils
22
. Courtesy of
www://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/borghese.xhtml
1
. Samuel Mitcham Jr,
Defenders of fortress Europe: the untold story of the German officers during the Allied Invasion
(Potomac Books, 2009)
2
. Baron Friedrich von der Heydte,
Return to Crete
(WDL, 1959, translation by Stanley Moss)
3
. Ibid
4
. Ibid
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
. Ibid
8
. Ibid
9
. Ibid
10
. Franz Kurowski,
Jump Into Hell
(Stackpole Press, 2010)
11
. Ibid
12
. Ibid
13
. Ibid
14
. Ibid
1
. Interviews by Dr Heaten conducted with Hans-Dietrich Hossfelder in 1985 and 1994
2
. Ibid
3
. Otto Skorzeny
, Skorzeny’s Special Missions
(Greenhill Books, 2006)
4
. Ibid
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
. Ibid
8
. Ibid
9
. Ibid
10
. Ibid
11
. Ibid
12
. Ibid
13
. Ibid
14
. Ibid
15
. Ibid
16
. Ibid
17
. Ibid
18
. Interviews by Dr Heaten conducted with Hans-Dietrich Hossfelder in 1985 and 1994
1
. Kirby and Woodburn,
The Official History, The War Against Japan, Volume III
(London HMSO, 1961)
2
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
3
. Ibid
4
. Trevor Royle,
Orde Wingate
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
5
. Ibid
6
. Ibid
7
. Ibid
8
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
9
. Ibid
10
. Ibid
11
. Ibid
12
. Denis Gudgeon, Imperial War Museum Sound 2986
13
. Ibid
14
. Ibid
15
. Ibid
16
. Ibid
17
. Royle,
Orde Wingate
18
. Available to view at
http://www.chindits.info
19
. Michael Calvert,
Fighting Mad
(Pen & Sword, 2004)
20
. Bernard Fergusson,
Beyond the Chindwin
(Fontana, 1955)
21
. Calvert,
Fighting Mad
22
. Fergusson,
Beyond the Chindwin
23
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
24
. Ibid
25
. Ibid
26
. Draft narrative of operations of 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, CAB 106/46, National Archives
27
. A.D. Harvey
, Collision of Empires: Britain in three world wars, 1793–1945
(Hambledon, 2003)
28
. Royle,
Orde Wingate
29
. Calvert,
Fighting Mad
30
. Harold Shippey, Imperial War Museum Sound 12164
31
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
32
. Calvert,
Fighting Mad
33
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
34
. Ibid
35
. Calvert,
Fighting Mad
36
. Mike Calvert papers, Imperial War Museum
37
. Letter from Slim to Major General Woodburn-Kirby, 1959, quoted in Trevor Royle,
Orde Wingate
38
. John Masters,
The Road Past Mandalay
(Phoenix, 2012)
39
. Royle,
Orde Wingate
1
. John Masters,
The Road Past Mandalay
(Phoenix, 2012)
2
. Ibid
3
. Charlton Ogburn,
The Marauders
(The Overlook Press, 2002)
4
. Trevor Royle,
Orde Wingate
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
5
. Ogburn,
The Marauders
6
. Masters,
The Road Past Mandalay
7
. Royle,
Orde Wingate