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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe hero in a kilt who tackled a Panzer division on his own!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324390/The-hero-kilt-tackled-Panzer-division--accepted-surrender-23-000-German-soldiers.html
By Tony Rennell
UPDATED: 13:12 EST, 28 October 2010
The undercover British officer crept silently through the bushes, his tartan kilt a bizarre form of dress for a man who did not want to be conspicuous.
Then he stopped to take in the awesome might of the enemy. Through the gloom, he could make out the 15,000 battle-scarred men and 200 machines of the cruellest and most feared of all the SS forces in war-torn France in the summer of 1944.
Parked up for the night, their tanks, half-tracks and heavy guns stretched as far as his eyes could see. How could he and the tiny band of amateurish French Resistance fighters he commanded possibly take on these professional killers? Yet that, come what may, was his mission.
Tommy Macpherson was an exceptional warrior-hero, acknowledged by experts as one of the bravest, most determined and resourceful British soldiers of WW II
The notorious Das Reich panzer division was on its way from southern France to Normandy to help repel the Allied armies that had landed there on D-Day.
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The hero in a kilt who tackled a Panzer division on his own! (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2013
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dhill926
(16,380 posts)1. k & r.....helluva story.....
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)2. K&R Great Story. nt
ananda
(28,891 posts)3. Wooowww!
That is a fantastic story.