Top 7 Daring Commando Raids in History

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 12/11/2017 | J Hines

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Vladimir Peniakoff and the PPA seem to be missing from the list.

[Billthedrill]

Not to be too pedantic, but the Trojan Horse isn't mentioned in the Iliad. The Aeneid, yes.

I'd have to include Skorzeny's raid, though. Jethro Tull did a song about Nimrod - "Caught In The Crossfire". Somewhere there are Brownings in a two-hand hold --- cocked and locked, one up the spout. There's nothing for it but to sit and wait for the hard men to get me out.

[laplata]

Thanks for that great history.

[laplata]

Nothing on this thread about the British? My goodness, did they ever pull some hair-raising commando raids in WW2.

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They certainly did.

[BroJoeK]

Billthedrill: "...the Trojan Horse isn't mentioned in the Iliad. The Aeneid, yes."

Thanks! I had to look it up to see for sure.
You're right about the Illiad -- no Trojan Horse.
But the Odyssey does discuss it, as does the Aeneid.

Funny I didn't know that...

[The_Media_never_lie]

Good post!

[Political Junkie Too]

The St. Nazaire Raid, Operation Chariot?

-PJ

[G Larry]

ReCon with the White Horse division had visited the site 3 days prior and informed COMMAND that the camp was empty.

(I hate auto-correct!)

[Oztrich Boy]

Operation Chariot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid.. >

[Flag_This]

George Rogers Clark and his capture of Vincennes.