Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII (35 page)

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261
,
315

Lower Romagna, Italy
349

Luft Dulag prison camp, Germany
132

Luftlande Infanterie-Division
184
–
5
,
223

Luger P08
2
,
8
,
170
,
203
,
261
,
262

Luhr, Frau
61
,
89
,
95

Luhr, Heinrich
55
,
89
,
95
,
106

‘M’
44
,
46
,
55
,
57
,
76
,
88
,
102
,
135
,
160

M1 Carbine rifle
175

‘Mädchen für Alles’
4

Madeira, Portugal
24
,
26
,
29
,
30
–
2

Maid Honour
21
–
35
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36
–
47
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48
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52
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64
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66
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68
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80
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101
,
110
,
111
–
12
,
160

malaria
105
,
106

Malayan Emergency
376

Mann, Jack
166
–
8
,
182
,
253
,
331
,
344

March-Phillipps, Gus,
36
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37
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38
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43
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44
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46
,
59
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60
,
63

sails into Funchal Harbour with
Maid Honour
24
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26
,
30
,
31

apprehensive as suspected Vichy French ship approaches
33
–
5
,
48
–
9

boarded and questioned by English ship
49
–
50

sails onward to Nigeria
50
–
2

receives photographs of Santa Isabel Harbour
55

trains local Nigerian recruits in guerilla warfare
56

asks General Giffard for extra men
57

meeting with Nigerian Governor Bernard Henry Bourdillon
58

prepares for crew Operation Postmaster
59
,
60
,
63
–
4
,
66
,
67

realises mistake has been made about time-zone in Fernando Po
70
–
1

boards and steals the
Duchessa d’Aosta
78
–
80
,
85
,
91

appoints Lassen as
Duchessa
’s Second Officer
91
–
2

Nuneaton
suffers engine trouble
92
–
3

anger at raising of Jolly Roger on
Duchessa
93

HMS
Violet
not at rendezvous point
96
–
7

escorted by HMS
Violet
to Lagos
100
,
103

informs ‘M’ of mission success
102

recommends Appleyard and Hayes for promotion
107

marries Marjorie Stewart
108

awarded Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
109

formation of Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF)
110

trains recruits with SSRF
114
–
15

Operation Dryad
118
–
19
,
123
–
6
,
128

death at St Laurent-sur-Mer during Operation Aquatint
132
–
4

Mariani, Francesco
373

Markham, Reverend
62
,
72

Maroulakis, Chrysanthos
236
,
238
,
251

Maschinengewehr 42 ‘Spandau’
10
,
20
,
364
–
9
,
371
–
2

Mavrikis, Jason
326
,
328
–
31
,
343

Mayne, Robert Blair
157

McKendrick, Robert
247

McLeod, Alec
324

Melos, Greek Islands
303

Messerschmitt fighter planes
1
,
303

MI5
37

MI9
127
,
148

Military Cross (MC)
109
,
221
,
254

Mills bombs
77
,
120
,
146
,
206
,
280
,
295

mines
137
,
316

Ministry of Economic Warfare
37

Model 24 Stielhandgranate
170

Molotov cocktails
337

Monastery of the Archangel Michael, Symi
236

Montcalm
33
,
34
,
49

Morrison, William
243
–
4

Morse code
182

mortars
22

mosquitoes
349
,
350
,
356

Moss, Bill Stanley
179

Motor Launches
175
–
6
,
215
–
17
,
260
,
266
,
271
–
2
,
281
,
285
,
304
,
316

Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs)
117
,
324
;
see also
‘Little Pisser’

Mouktari village, Crete
190

Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
129
,
152
–
3

Müller, Friedrich-Wilhelm
223

Mundt, Chief Petty Officer
125
,
127

Nacht und Nebel
(Night and Fog)
47

nervenkrieg
258

Newington, District Commissioner
64
,
66
,
73
,
75

Nicholson, Jack
112

training at Anderson Manor
112
,
115

told by Sutherland to keep an eye on Lassen
159

Operation Albumen (Crete)
7
,
8
,
9
,
12
,
163
,
173
,
175
,
181
,
185
,
188
,
191
–
6
,
198
–
200
,
209
–
10
,
212
,
214
,
220
–
1

raid on Santorini
288
,
289
,
295
,
296
,
298
–
9
,
302
–
3

Operation Roast (Lake Comacchio)
354
,
370

Niger River
94

Nigeria
45
,
50
,
52
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55
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56
,
58
,
62
,
97
,
100
,
101
,
105
–
6

Lagos
45
,
50
,
52
,
55
,
97
,
100
,
101

Olokomeji
56

Nisyros, Greek Islands
278
–
82

Nobel 808
6

North Africa
40
,
154
,
156
,
166
,
177
,
324

Norway
38

Nuneaton
53
,
60
,
64
–
6
,
68
,
71
,
72
,
76
,
82
,
83
,
87
,
92
–
3
,
97
,
100
,
102
,
103

O’Reilly, Sean
162
,
163
,
173
,
242
,
264
,
267
–
72
,
276
,
288
–
9
,
293
–
6
,
338
,
354
,
356
,
367
–
8
,
369
,
370

Oerlikon cannon
123
,
124

Official Secrets Act
37

Olokomeji, Nigeria
56

Omaha Beach
130
,
131

Operation Albumen (Crete)
161
–
83
,
184
–
96
,
197
–
208
,
209
–
24

German reprisals
209
–
14
,
222
–
4

Operation Aquatint (St Laurent-sur-Mer)
130
,
131
–
4

Operation Basalt (Sark)
136
–
45
,
146
–
52
,
158

Operation Dryad (Les Casquets)
117
–
30

Operation Husky (Italy)
160
–
3
,
220
–
2
,
348

Operation Menace (Senegal)
32
–
3
,
49

Operation Postmaster (Fernando Po)
42
,
51
–
9
,
60
–
71
,
72
–
84
,
85
–
97
,
98
–
110

blackmail of Governor Sorulace
54

Richard Lippett organises party for German and Italian officers
55

training of guerillas in Olokomeji, Nigeria
56

Bernard Henry Bourdillon provides extra men from Colonial Service
58

organisation of second party for German and Italian officers
61
,
62
–
3

Reverend Markham agrees to give all-clear signal
62

Nuneaton
nearly capsizes during training
65
–
6

Newington’s folbot capsizes, swims through shark infested waters
66
–
7

party for German and Italian officers goes ahead
69
–
70

realisation that mistake has been made about time-zone in Fernando Po
70
–
1

Lippett bribes engineer to shut Santa Isabel’s electricity off early
72

boarding of and stealing of
Duchessa d’Aosta
and
Likomba
73
–
84
,
85
–
9

Kapitan Specht confronts Peter Lake
89
–
90

Nuneaton
suffers engine trouble
92
–
3

Binea investigates theft of ships
95
–
6

press reaction to theft of ships
98

Lippett interrogated by Captain Binea
98
–
100

ships escorted by HMS
Violet
to Lagos
100
,
103

Lippett escapes to Nigeria
104
–
6

Operation Roast (Lake Comacchio)
351
–
61
,
362
–
73
,
374
–
5

Operation Undercut (Salonika)
329

Opoczynski, Abram ‘Orr’
119
,
128
,
132
,
133

ornithology
26

Palestine (Mandatory)

Athlit
162
–
8
,
174
,
228
–
32

Carmel hills
162
–
3

Château Pèlerin
162

Haifa
228
,
233

Jerusalem
168
–
70

Tel Aviv
157

Papathanasion, Colonel
329

Patmos, Greek Islands
240

Patterson, Ian
278

Pedi Bay, Symi
232
,
245
,
246

Perkins, Frank ‘Buzz’
27
,
30
,
64
,
77
,
82
–
3

Petit Dixcart, Sark
140
,
142

PIAT anti-tank bazookas
332

pigeons, carrier
127

Pipo (Maltese terrier)
238
–
9
,
255
,
260
–
1
,
266
,
275
,
276
,
306
,
323
,
335
,
346

Piraeus, Greece
311
,
312

Piscopi, Greek Islands
236

‘Pistol Packing Momma’ (song)
336

Pittard, Frances
141
–
2
,
151

planes

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.41 Albemarle
222

Bristol Type
156

    Beaufighter
257

Consolidated B-24

    Liberator
155

Fieseler Fi-156 Storch
1
,
194
–
5

Heinkel He-177
118

Junkers Ju-87
1
,
11
,
15
,
18
,
40
,
187
,
191
,
196
,
199
,
242
,
246
–
8

Junkers Ju-88
1
,
4
–
5
,
15
–
17
,
187
,
191
,
195
–
6
,
197
,
204
,
303
–
4

Junkers transport aircraft
256

Messerschmitt fighter planes
1
,
303

plastic explosives
6
,
77
,
85
,
200
,
260
,
280

Plimsolls
59