Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper, 1941 Mortimer Gavin
Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper, 1941 Mortimer Gavin In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel,…
Specifikacia Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper, 1941 Mortimer Gavin
Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper, 1941 Mortimer Gavin
In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast. In the confused fighting Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would escape, one of whom was Terry. Three men - Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry - stormed the villa, but the German general was nowhere to be found.
Yet in truth the raid had been a glorious failure, a mission bedevilled by bad planning and poor intelligence. The raid made headlines round the free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Even so, crucial lessons were learned, particularly by the Special Air Service - who carried out their first mission on the same night as the raid on Rommel's HQ.