Operation Colossus: The First British Airborne Raid of World War II by Lawrence Paterson

Author:Lawrence Paterson [Paterson, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784383817
Google: T9zdDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Published: 2020-06-23T21:00:00+00:00

My section was commanded by a grand little Scots Canadian, Second Lieutenant Jowett. That first night’s travel was something to remember. Although we kept on for over three hours, we covered only about eight kilometres in actual distance owing largely to the hills and the mud, which was well above the knees for the greater part. All three sections rested for the following day within a radius of about three miles, and at 7.30 p.m. on the 11th we were off again. Dogs barking marked our progress practically the whole way. At midnight we crossed the snow line, and then started down on our journey to the coast. In all, that night from 7.30 p.m. to 2.15 a.m. we covered about twenty-five miles of very broken country, during which our section’s interpreter … Lucky, RAF, had to drop out with a damaged knee.¹

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