Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean
Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in…
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Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean
Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No 30 Commando. The Germans invaded Leros with overwhelming force on 12 November 1943, five days later the battle was over. In support of 3,000 regulars in 234 Brigade, the LRDG landed covertly on Leros establishing observation posts, reporting movement of enemy shipping and aircraft.In October the LRDG were ordered to assault the island of Levitha losing forty highly skilled men killed or captured.
Their individual stories make for enthralling reading.A measure of the intensity of While many British troops were captured most of the LRDG and SBS escaped.