I'm looking for some Jow Forums literature/reading material on unbelievable operations, done by a single man, a team or a whole army, doesn't matter as long as it leaves me speechless and in disbelief.
Any recommendation where to start or what to read upon?
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A Genius For Deception
>Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944
ty, read Art of War so nice to see deception based strategy book.
in Iraq, I stretched my anus over a trailer hitch
Was it painful?
He's a big guy
This one time I beat my dick so hard in a porta shitter that I passed out and almost died because the base got hit with indirect fire and nobody bothered to search for me
They thought I got hit by a mortar when they first found me.
War is heck...
Large French fortress in WWI captured by enterprising sergeant with bolt action rifle.
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>NCO puts in all the work
>some random officer swoops in and takes all the credit
Every fucking time...
The Saint Nazaire Raid (WW2)
Operation Eldest Son (Vietnam)
Leó Majors entire life story (WW2 and Korea)
Pegasus Bridge (WW2)
Basically all of 3 Para battlegroups deployment in 2006 (Afghanistan)
Goose Green and Operation Macato (Falklands)
Battle of Mogadishu (Somalia)
None are that unbelievable but its just tales of hard cunts doing hard shit.
The Defense of Osoweic Fortress and the Attack of the Dead Men
>The Germans waited until 6 August for the right wind conditions. At 4 am, at the same times as regular artillery started their bombardment, German forces used poison gases against the defenders. Thinking that all of the defenders were dead, fourteen battalions of Landwehr - at least 7000 infantry men - began advancing. When German infantry reached the first line of defense, they encountered what was left of 13th company of the 226th Zemlyansk regiment (about 100 men). Being unprepared for resistance and seeing the bloody clothing the remaining defenders wore (Russian soldiers were coughing blood up because of the effects of the poison gases) put the Germans in a state of shock and caused them to break and run.
The Jungle is Neutral by Col. Freddie Spencer Chapman is a pretty good book
only in ww 2 could an arctic explorer and expert in ski warfare end up trapped in the Malyan jungle leading a 3 man guerilla war against the Japanese
"In the first fortnight alone, they blew up 15 railway bridges, derailed seven trains and exploded 40 military vehicles, mostly using homemade bombs of gelignite hidden in bamboo sticks. They used 1,000lb of explosives, threw 100 grenades, and caused – according to Chapman's own estimate – between 500 and 1,500 enemy casualties. The Japanese command believed it was up against 200 highly trained commandos, and deployed 2,000 troops to hunt the three-man band down."
"n the one occasion he was arrested, Chapman blithely announced that a Japanese prince had been his keen birdwatching companion at Cambridge. The arresting officer was apparently so charmed that he apologised for having no whisky to offer Chapman, and declined to bind his hands and feet. Chapman then waited till dead of night and, despite a debilitating bout of malaria, made good his escape."
the very definition of an absolute madman
- Anything about the Selous Scouts in the Rhodesian bush war.
- Anything about Operation Dingo
- The Telemark raid and follow-up bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water to Germany
- Ill met by Moonlight. Tale of the kidnap of a German general on Crete.
- Stalingrad. The whole fucking thing.
Anyone know that one about the American sniper who crawled 2km across an open field to kill a Vietnamese commander?
Ill have a look
Not so incredible but I found it comfy and relatable
>Kamfgruppe Pieper during their retreat, surrounded by enemies and trying to find a way over the river Salm during the night
>While marching in the darkness an American sentry calls out "Halt!". In silence the Germans throw themselves on the ground. The sentry repeated the challenge three times and got no response. Then he fired three shots. Thinking he must have been hearing ghosts, the sentry gave up on his hunt.
>770 Waffen SS soldiers pass undetected over a major road to the south a bit later
The capture of Belgrade
>‘What was I to do, give the city back?’
BERVITIN OBERDOSE :DDD
Carlos Motherfuggin Hathcock. Fun fact, dude got many, if not most of his kills with a fucking M2 nigger rigged with a scope.
>Fun fact, dude got many, if not most of his kills
Not really, but he did use it
You're right, I should've qualified that with "his longest range kills", which is what I was thinking of. Scatterbrain strikes again.