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Submitting... That night the unit – which specialised in cross-Channel raids, snatching prisoners for interrogation and recceing enemy installations – infiltrated the tiny island off the coast of Normandy, arriving by specially-silenced motor torpedo boat. Renowned for their daring and fearlessness, they killed a guard and captured five Germans, binding their hands. But the prisoners resisted and raised the alarm. The order was given to shoot any who tried to flee. Three ended up dead and only one was taken back alive for questioning. A couple of weeks later an incensed Hitler, who believ...

Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent awarded the Legion d’Honneur Alison Shaw Vet and Special Operations Executive agent. Born: 21 May, 1920, in Pietersburg, South Africa. Died: 17 March, 2021, in Perth, Australia, aged 100 © James Edgar served in the Channel Islands, France and Burma as part of ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’ James Edgar was one of the audacious undercover agents whose infamous raid on a Nazi-occupied Channel Island led to Hitler’s notorious Commando Order, decreeing that all captured Commandos be summarily executed. Ope...