Spec Ops by William H. McRaven

Author:William H. McRaven [Mcraven, William H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54723-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Charles Whiting, Skorzeny (New York: Ballantine, 1972), 17.

2. Glenn B. Infield, Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando (New York: Military Heritage, 1981), 230.

3. Testimony of Otto Skorzeny at Nuremberg, taken by Lt. Col. Smith W. Brookhart Jr., RG 238, National Archives.

4. Otto Skorzeny, Skorzeny’s Secret Mission, trans. Jacques Le Clercq (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950), 50.

5. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 21.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid., 36.

8. Ibid., 40.

9. “Mussolini Event,” Foreign Military Studies, RG 338, National Archives. South Tyrol was annexed during World War II by the Italians and the Austrians never fully forgave them for this act.

10. Ibid., 29.

11. Infield, Hitler’s Commando, 31.

12. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 48.

13. Ibid., 54.

14. Ibid., 57. It was later confirmed that Mussolini had been aboard the Italian cruiser Panthere and then transferred to the naval base at La Maddalena under the custody of Adm. Bruno Brivonesi.

15. “Mussolini Event,” 103.

16. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 65.

17. Ibid., 69.

18. Infield, Hitler’s Commando, 36.

19. Charles Foley, Commando Extraordinary (New York: Bantam, 1979), 43.

20. James Lucas, Kommando: German Special Forces of World War II (New York: St. Martin’s, 1985), 99. It was also learned after the war that Skorzeny and his men had captured two carabinieri officers and tortured them until they confirmed the intercepted radio report.

21. Infield, Hitler’s Commando, 37.

22. Roger Edwards, German Airborne Troops (New York: Doubleday, 1974), 116. The 2d Parachute Division and the 3d Panzer Division were made available to General Student to help protect Rome and keep vital communication lines open to German divisions in the south of Italy.

23. Foley, Commando Extraordinary, 47.

24. Ibid., 48.

25. A. H. Farrar-Hockley, Student (New York: Ballantine, 1973), 121.

26. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 86-87.

27. Farrar-Hockley, Student, 124.

28. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 87.

29. “Mussolini Event,” 311.

30. Ibid., 314.

31. Ibid., 315.

32. Ibid., 316.

33. Ibid.

34. Winston G. Ramsey, “It Happened Here: The Rescue of Mussolini,” After the Battle, no. 22 (1978): 23.

35. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 102.

36. Infield, Hitler’s Commando, 44.

37. “Mussolini Event,” 138.

38. Farrar-Hockley, Student, 121.

39. “Mussolini Event,” 24.

40. Ibid., 25.

41. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 40.

42. “Mussolini Event,” 25.

43. Skorzeny, Secret Mission, 40.

44. Foley, Commando Extraordinary, 43.

45. Farrar-Hockley, Student, 121.

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