1. SEVEN MOST DARING RAIDS EVER.
- Author
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Wilkinson, Stephan
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RAIDS (Military science) , *MILITARY history - Abstract
The article focuses on seven of the most audacious military raids in history. The U.S. Army Rangers rescued U.S. and British prisoners of war (POWs) held by the Japanese military in a camp near the town of Cabanatuan in the Philippines in 1945. Confederate Lieutenant John Singleton Mosby led the raid in Fairfax, Virginia in 1863 capturing Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton during the U.S. Civil War. German Schutzstafell (SS) captain Otto Skorzeny captured ousted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Gran Sasso mountain in Rome, Italy in 1943.
- Published
- 2009