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There were only two types of commandos, the quick and the dead. This is what we'd been taught. So we both shot at once. [Harry] gave his man on his side two shots and I gave my man two shots. There was a small hole in his front -- where the other shot had gone to, I don't know -- but a very large hole in his back and there was a lot of tomato sauce.
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Commando Courage
Patrick Hagen served as a wireless operator with 4 Commando Brigade signals troop. Here he describes the moment when, while guarding their exit route during a four-man hit-and-run raid on a radar site on the French coast, he and his friend Harry were ...
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