The British SAS Major Who Defied Orders and Burned 60 SS Officers Alive Inside a German Corps HQ
#BritishSAS #OperationTombola #WW2 In March 1945, a 24-year-old British Major was told in writing, by radio, from the highest level of Allied command in Italy, that he was to stand down. He said the radio was broken. Six hours later, his men marched down from the Apennines with bagpipes playing Highland Laddie and burned a German Corps Headquarters to the ground. This documentary tells the untold story of Major Roy Farran and Operation Tombola, the SAS raid that was officially cancelled, officially never happened, and officially had nothing to do with the man who led it from the front under the cover-name Paddy McGinty. Behind enemy lines south of Reggio Emilia, Farran assembled one of the strangest small armies of the war, British SAS paratroopers, Italian partisans, Russian deserters, Spanish anti-fascists and a wandering American medical officer, all under a homemade flag, and used them to gut the brain of the German Fifty-First Mountain Corps on the eve of the Allied spring offensive. Discover the SAS officer with three Military Crosses who fell out of a plane on purpose, the bagpiper from Glasgow who walked into battle in a kilt, and the night attack on Villa Calvi and Villa Rossi that broke a German corps before the Po valley offensive even began. 🔥 In this video: The Cancellation: Why London ordered Operation Tombola stood down and how Farran ignored it. Paddy McGinty: The cover-name that let the British Army deny he was ever in Italy. The Battaglione Alleato: How Farran built a private multinational battalion in the mountains. Albinea Night Assault: Why bagpipes were the signal to attack two villas full of German staff officers. The Aftermath: The corps that did not know what to do at the worst possible moment for the Germans. Sources of Where I get my facts: Farran, R. (1948) Winged Dagger: Adventures on Special Service, Collins, London. Asher, M. (2007) The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS, Viking, London. Macintyre, B. (2016) SAS: Rogue Heroes, Viking, London. Kemp, A. (1991) The SAS at War 1941-1945, John Murray, London. Strawson, J. (1984) A History of the SAS Regiment, Secker & Warburg, London. Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes. #BritishSAS #OperationTombola #WW2 #RoyFarran #SpecialForces #History #ItalianCampaign #Apennines #SecondWorldWar #SASRaid
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