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Nick Wilder's service behind enemy lines: a story told at last 21 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read Nick Wilder pictured at practice during his overseas war service, May 1942. Photo / Supplied Taupo & Turangi Weekender By: NZME Andrew Wilder feels he only finally got to know his father many years after his death. Nick Wilder, of Wallingford, Waipukurau, died in 1970, aged 56. Andrew was just 18 at the time and, while he knew his father had served overseas in World War II, he knew little more. "The war was something unspoken," Andrew Wilder said. "He never told us what he'd done." Advertise...

The operation was carried out by members of the elite Long Range Desert Group in September 1942 It was carried out to distract attention from the preparation for the Battle of El Alamein a month later The elite forces destroyed or damaged 23 Italian planes being used to drop bombs on Allied troops Incredibly, whilst ten members of the force were captured and 11 were injured, no one was killed