Trenchead
09-14-2013, 20:19
I am relatively new to this forum and SF culture in general. In being dedicated to attaining the green beret I have not only PT’ed myself daily to an extent in which most people would define as ludacris, but I have also taken it upon myself to tackle the vast extent of knowledge and history surrounding SF (searching for it is almost as difficult as absorbing it). I was fortunate enough to travel to Paris, France this summer, and while there I went to Invalides. Invalides was a hospital that Napoleon built for the injured in his army, but more importantly is now a vast historic museum on warfare. While there, in the WWII exhibit, I stumbled upon a French shout out to the OSS and Operation Jedburgh.
“In September 1943, the Allies decided to constitute one hundred officers teams to be dropped in France to arm and train the maquis, and coordinate their actions. Each one was constituted by a French, an American, and a British, among whom a radio operator. It was the JEDBURGH project. 285 volunteers, all hardened combatants, followed in England, at Milton Hall near Peterbourgh, a three month intensive drill. They will have to command civilian people, to deal with the maquis leaders… The teams were constituted by affinity. Colonel Musgrave, the school commander, decided, in April 1944, the creation of a badge of the SPECIAL FORCES.
The drops spread from June 6th to November 1944, in Bretagne to forbid the troops to strengthen Normandy, in the South-West, in the East of France to create an insecurity state among the enemy and to control the Belfort pass, in the Rhone Valley to make easier the advance of the Allies landed in Provence.
All perfectly marched, in spite of numerous situations caused by the populations, the ground, the enemy, and the men in the maquis who refused to work in Germany, whose training required efforts and cleverness. The result gave a high value information in favor of the Allies. Receving ten thousand weapons, the maquis caused five days delay to the German reinforcements in Normandy, enabling the Allies to ensure consolidation of their beachheads.
First experience of a combined cooperation at the men’s level, it was the one of a methodically organized guerrilla, thanks to drops and to the radio. After the German capitulation, 44 French JED were volunteers to fight against Japan. Dropped into the far east the suffered very heavy casualties.”
As you can see the French to English translation was not proper to say the least. Just passing along what I’ve stumbled upon in my search. All in SF makes more sense in light of its past.
“In September 1943, the Allies decided to constitute one hundred officers teams to be dropped in France to arm and train the maquis, and coordinate their actions. Each one was constituted by a French, an American, and a British, among whom a radio operator. It was the JEDBURGH project. 285 volunteers, all hardened combatants, followed in England, at Milton Hall near Peterbourgh, a three month intensive drill. They will have to command civilian people, to deal with the maquis leaders… The teams were constituted by affinity. Colonel Musgrave, the school commander, decided, in April 1944, the creation of a badge of the SPECIAL FORCES.
The drops spread from June 6th to November 1944, in Bretagne to forbid the troops to strengthen Normandy, in the South-West, in the East of France to create an insecurity state among the enemy and to control the Belfort pass, in the Rhone Valley to make easier the advance of the Allies landed in Provence.
All perfectly marched, in spite of numerous situations caused by the populations, the ground, the enemy, and the men in the maquis who refused to work in Germany, whose training required efforts and cleverness. The result gave a high value information in favor of the Allies. Receving ten thousand weapons, the maquis caused five days delay to the German reinforcements in Normandy, enabling the Allies to ensure consolidation of their beachheads.
First experience of a combined cooperation at the men’s level, it was the one of a methodically organized guerrilla, thanks to drops and to the radio. After the German capitulation, 44 French JED were volunteers to fight against Japan. Dropped into the far east the suffered very heavy casualties.”
As you can see the French to English translation was not proper to say the least. Just passing along what I’ve stumbled upon in my search. All in SF makes more sense in light of its past.