A plaque has been unveiled on the 80th anniversary of a commando raid in Sark. Operation Basalt involved a landing in the Channel Island, which was occupied by German forces for five years during ...

was crucial to Allied forces' campaigns against the Axis powers during WW2. The area, about 15 miles north east of Fort William, was used to train elite commandos from Britain and the US as well ...

Tallmadge and his agents, which included men and women, both slave and free, many of whom still remain unknown, gathered information, conducted occasional commando raids, had a hand in the capture of ...

It was the end of 1941, and any major British assault against the Axis ... were well within their capabilities. Among them: a commando raid to find out about German radar installations on the ...

Lord Ashdown, a former special forces commando, tells the story of the 'Cockleshell Heroes', who led one of the most daring and audacious commando raids of World War II. In 1942, Britain was ...

These raids ... British military to approve his concept of highly trained units. When the Second World War broke out, he was working as a cowboy in the United States. Later, he joined a commando ...