THE EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOITS OF A SLEIGHT-OF-THE EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOITS OF A SLEIGHT-OF-HAND SPECIAL FORCE TRAINED TO FIGHT WITH DECEIT AND GUILE WERE CROWNED BY AN ASTOUNDING ACT OF INDIVIDUAL BRAVERY DURING THE CLOSING STAGES OF BURMA’S ‘FORGOTTEN WAR’. STEVE SNELLING CHARTS A STORY OF INGENIOUS ENDEAVOUR BEHIND ENEMY LINES.
SECOND WORLD WAR | WAR IN THE FAR EAST
Ronald Norman was feeling miserable. All his best-laid plans had come to virtually nothing with mission after mission thwarted by a mixture of misfortune and misinformation. Since arriving in Burma three months earlier to help spearhead a third Arakan offensive, the highly-trained, highly-motivated group of men making up 58 Company, D Force, the newly-raised tactical arm of a top-secret strategic deception organisation, had accomplished little. Small parties of men had taken part in only a handful of operations and of those one had been half-scuppered by enemy interference and another rendered completely redundant by a lack of opposition!
