Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII (37 page)

‘Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife’
28
,
68
,
120
,
137
,
148
,
156
,
193
,
320
,
347

grenades
19
,
21
,
145
,
146
,
295
–
6
,
337
,
339
,
368
,
371

Lewes bombs
6
,
9
,
10
,
171
,
188
,
192
,
195
,
196
,
197
–
8
,
200
,
201
,
206
,
207
,
280

Lewis machineguns
22
,
34

Luger P08
2
,
18
,
170
,
203
,
261
,
262

M1 Carbine rifle
175

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

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

mines
316

Model 24 Stielhandgranate
170

Molotov cocktails
337

Oerlikon cannon
123
,
125

PIAT anti-tank bazookas
332

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

Red Devils
175

S-mines
137

Schmeisser (Maschinenpistole 40)
9
,
170
,
175
,
293
–
4
,
327
,
334

Smith & Wesson .38 revolver
169

Steyr rifles
125

Tommy Gun (Thompson machinegun)
9
,
23
,
65
,
68
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
84
,
87
,
123
,
124
,
169
,
175
,
271
,
281
,
293
,
327

Vickers cannon, QF (quick-firing)
22
,
31
,
34

Walther G43
218

Weinrich, Obergefreiter
144
,
145
,
146
,
147

West Africa
32
,
40
–
47

White Mountains, Crete
176

Wilkinson Sword
28

Willis, Algernon Usborne
46
,
57

Winchester College
157

Wingfield-Digby, Simon
308
–
9

Winter, Thomas
51
,
66
,
73
–
7
,
107
,
108

Winterbourne River, Dorset
114

World War I
30

World War II

1940

Battle of Dunkirk
24
,
26
,
36
,
324

Operation Menace (Senegal)
32
–
3
,
49

1941

Battle of Crete
178

Operation Postmaster (Fernando Po)
21
–
110

1942

Battle of Dieppe
149
–
51

Operation Dryad (Les Casquets)
117
–
30

Operation Aquatint

(St Laurent-sur-Mer)
130
,
131
–
4

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

1943

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

Operation Husky (Sicily)
160
–
3
,
220
–
1

Italian armistice
220

SBS raid on Symi
227
,
232
–
9
,
240
,
241
–
50
,
251
–
2

1944

SBS raid on Halki
265
,
266
–
74

SBS raid on Nisyros
278
–
82

SBS raid on Halki and Alimnia
282
–
4

SBS raid on Santorini
286
–
92
,
293
–
305

second SBS raid on Symi
306
–
7

D-Day landings
130
,
155
,
161

liberation of Athens
310
–
15

liberation of Salonika
322
–
43

1945

Allied advance in Northern Italy
343
,
348

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

Allied breakthrough at Argenta
375

Wright, Douggie
162

Wright, Roger
319
–
22

Yangtze River, China
28

Yorkshire
27

zero-rated agents
48

Zorilla, Abelino
54
,
55
,
61
,
63
,
69
,
95
–
6
,
99