A Far-Flung Gamble – Havana 1762 Osprey
At the height of the Seven Years’ War, Great Britain made an audacious strike at the heart of Spanish colonial power in the Caribbean. Gathering troops from bases in Britain and Canada and sailing across the Atlantic in secrecy was an incredible feat. The raid on Havana took Spanish colonial forces...
Bruneval Raid Operation Biting 1942 Osprey
In the darkest days of World War II, the British planned a daring airborne operation to capture the secret of the new German radar. Lead by Major John Frost, a company of paratroopers dropped into Bruneval on the French coast, and quickly neutralized a small German garrison. Then began a desperate...
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Cabanataun Prison Raid 1945 Osprey
The Philippines 1945 ... On January 27 1945 the 6th Ranger Battalion and the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit began one of the most dangerous missions of the World War II, a bid to rescue 500 British, American and Dutch prisoners of war held in a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan. Despite operating...
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Certain Death in Sierra Leone – The SAS and Operation Barras 2000 Osprey
In September 2000 the notorious militia gang, West Side Boys' kidnapped eleven British soldiers in Sierra Leone and Operation Barras was launched as the rescue operation. Fast roping in from helicopters, the SAS soldiers engaged in a heavy firefight with the militia, killing several, and capturing...
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Cockleshell Raid Bordeaux 1942 Osprey
On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it...
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Dambusters – Operation Chastise 1943 Osprey
In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk, low level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr Valley. A comparatively tiny part of Air Chief Marshal Sir...
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Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act—The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804 Osprey
On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat. Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's...
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Israel's Lightning Strike Entebbe 1976 Osprey
The Raid on Entebbe 1976 ... The Israeli Special Forces' operation at Entebbe has gone down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted. When a passenger jet was hijacked and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, the Israeli government immediately began to plan a...
Operation Archery: The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941 Osprey
Operation Archery, the raid on Vaagso and Maaloy in Norway on 27 December 1942, was the first true combined operation carried out by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast between Bergen and Trondheim, were...
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Pegasus Bridge - Benouville, D-Day 1944 Osprey
The night before D-Day, light infantry and a detachment of Royal Engineers landed by gliders at Pegasus Bridge, which spanned the Caen Canal. Quickly overwhelming the guards, they managed to hold the bridge and help prevent German reinforcements from reaching the British landing beaches. Will Fowler...
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Rangers Lead the Way D-Day 1944 Osprey
Pointe-du-Hoc D-Day 1944 ... In the early hours of D-Day a group from the US Army 2nd Ranger Battalion was sent to scale the cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach. Their mission was to destroy the artillery battery overlooking the beach. But, after climbing the cliffs under heavy German fire and securing...
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Red Christmas: The Tatsinskaya Airfield Raid 1942 Osprey
By December 1942, the Soviets had surrounded the German 6th Army in Stalingrad, cutting off all lines of supply except through the air. Seeking to sever this last German lifeline, Soviet Command decided to launch a raid with the entire 24th Tank Corps to seize the airfield at Tatsinskaya, the...
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Rescuing Mussolini Gran Sasso 1943 Osprey
The successful rescue of imprisoned Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from atop the Gran Sasso plateau was one of the most dramatic special forces operations in military history. Arrested by his own officers in July 1943, Mussolini had been whisked away to an isolated and heavily guarded mountaintop...
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Ride Around Missouri – Shelby’s Great Raid 1863 Osprey
In July 1863, with the Confederacy still reeling from the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Union forces pushed deep into Arkansas, capturing the capital of Little Rock. In response, Colonel Joseph O. Shelby launched a daring raid to disrupt the advance. Taking 600 men and a section of light...
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Roughshop Through Dixie 1863 Osprey
On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid. Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and...
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Run The Gauntlet – The Channel Dash 1942 Osprey
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the...
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Storming Flight 181 – GSG 9 and the Mogadishu Hijack 1977 Osprey
In 1977, Lufthansa flight 181 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, members of the German special missions group, GSG 9, assisted by two SAS advisors, stormed the plane, killing three of the terrorists and wounding the fourth, while avoiding any major harm to the...
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The Blocking of Zeebrugge - Operation Z-O 1918 Osprey
On the night of 22-23 April 1918 the Royal Navy carried out a raid on the German held ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend - Operation Z-O. Under the cover of clouds and smoke, over 70 ships and an assault force of 1,800 Royal Marines embarked on a daring mission which involved a vicious battle of...
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The Great Chevauchée – John of Gaunt’s Raid on France 1373 Osprey
In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Driven by the high ideals of chivalry,the raiders left with epic pageantry. However, the reality soon overwhelmed the raiders. Beset on all sides by French ambushes and plagued by disease and starvation, the...
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The Great Expedition – Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 1585–86 Osprey
In 1585, the English launched a pre-emptive strike against Spain, by attacking her New World colonies. Led by Sir Francis Drake, in command of 21 ships and 1,800 soldiers, the expedition struck first at the Canary Islands, then attacked the city of Santo Domingo and the treasure port of Cartagena....
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The Great Locomotive Chase: The Andrew’s Raid 1862 Osprey
The Andrew's Raid 1862 ... In April 1862 the stage was set for the greatest locomotive chase in history, as Union forces stole a train and travelled towards Tennessee, disabling the railway line as they went, with the intention of cutting off supplies to the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta,...
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The Hunt for Pancho Villa – The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17 Osprey
On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. Black Jack Pershing led an expeditionary...
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The Last Boarding Party – The USMC and the SS Mayaguez 1975 Osprey
Just two weeks after the close of the Vietnam War, communist Cambodian Khmer Rouge elements seized the S.S. Mayaguez in international waters. Believing they had to act quickly, United States Marines boarded the ship, only to find the crew had been removed. They then launched an assault on a nearby...
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The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid – The Philippines 1945 Osprey
On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by...
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The Revenge of the 47 Ronin—Edo 1703 Osprey
When Lord Kira brought about the death of Lord Asano, he made Asano’s loyal samurai into ronin—masterless warriors. These men secretly plotted their revenge and one snowy winter’s night, launched an ambitious raid against their enemy’s mansion in Edo. What ensued was the fiercest sword battle to...
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The Samurai Capture a King: Okinawa 1609 Osprey
Okinawa 1609 ... A brilliant operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. ... Stephen Turnbull gives a blow-by-blow...
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The Zeppelin Base Raids – Germany 1914 Osprey
In the summer of 1914, as Europe teetered on the brink of war, the spectre of immediate Zeppelin raids on London and other major British towns and cities loomed large. When Winston Churchill accepted responsibility for the defence of London, he realised that Zeppelins were most vulnerable when on...
Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor 1941 Osprey
In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the...
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Who Dares Wins: The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 Osprey
The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 ... When the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in May 1980 and rescued 19 of the 21 hostages being held there by a terrorist group, their unit was immediately catapulted to international fame. Despite all the acclaim and the extensive media coverage, the...
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