From Dunkirk to D-Day
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From Dunkirk to D-Day

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From Dunkirk to D-Day A Commando's War Language:English Format:Hardback Pages:272 Photos:37 mono illustrations Publisher:Pen and Sword Military ISBN:9781399035668 Item No. 9781399035668 Bill Adlam’s hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction. But it all happened.Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal ‘for gallantry under fire’ by King George VI. Later, Bill volunteered for commandos: he thrived on adrenaline.Number 4 Commando took him to a surgical strike in the north of Norway. The stated objective: to destroy oil installations. It was a feint. Ian Fleming of the Secret Intelligence Service had masterminded the raid. Its objective: to help break the Enigma Code.Number 4 Commando then sent him on a raid to Dieppe in August 1942 to spike naval guns to enable a landi

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