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2 unusual facts about Commando


Ikari Warriors

The game was released at the time when there were many Commando clones on the market.

Louis Joubert Lock

Owned by the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and not the ship building company Chantiers de l'Atlantique, its strategic importance as a major naval construction and maintenance asset since its completion in 1934, resulted in it becoming the main target of the British Army Commando raid of 1942, the St. Nazaire Raid, to stop German battleships such as Tirpitz from accessing maintenance facilities in the Atlantic Ocean.


29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery

The early commando training was initiated in the Royal Citadel at Plymouth with a four week 'beat up' to select those who would go on to CTCRM Lympstone and complete the five week Commando course (X Troop) with the Royal Marine trainees where all qualified for the Green Beret.

41 Commando

They raided the North Korean coast with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps until 41 Commando returned to England in December 1951; those who had served less than a year in the commando were drafted into 42 Commando operating in Malaya.

Battle of Blood River

With the intelligence received at Danskraal, Pretorius became confident enough to propose a vow, which demanded the celebration, by the commando and their posterity, of the coming victory over Dingane.

Battle of Hill 170

The 3rd Commando Brigade were given the task of assaulting the Arakan Peninsula at Myebon.

Battle of Nooitgedacht

On 2 December, De la Rey's commando ambushed an ox-wagon convoy east of Rustenburg, killing and wounding 64 British soldiers and capturing 54 men and 118 wagons.

Bernhardt Line

A further brigade supported by two Commando battalions landed from the sea north of the river at Termoli, and a fiercely contested battle ensued which had hung in the balance when temporary river crossings had been washed away after heavy rains and prevented Allied armour from moving forward.

Bersiap

In December 1946, Special Forces Depot (DST), led by commando and counter-insurgency expert Captain Raymond 'Turk' Westerling, were accused of pacifying the southern Sulawesi region using arbitrary terror techniques, which were copied by other anti-Republicans.

Biafra

A number of Europeans served in the Biafran cause; German born Rolf Steiner was a Lt. Colonel assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade and Welshman Taffy Williams served as a Major until the very end of the conflict.

Bill Duke

As the action-film-oriented genre became more popular, Duke's presence was perfect to portray a myriad of "tough guy" roles, chiefly alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando and Predator, as well as a DEA chief in The Limey (1999) which was an uncredited role; and a police chief in the Carl Weathers movie Action Jackson.

Brigitte Borghese

During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing and Alida Valli, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.

Chugworth Academy

Manuel Bistro, Red Commando - Manuel is a Communist revolutionary who led a team of other revolutionaries and took over Sally's classroom briefly in an attempt to overthrow...well, something.

Commando Order

On 30 July 1943, the captured seven-man crew of the Royal Norwegian Navy motor torpedo boat MTB 345 were executed by the Germans in Bergen, Norway on the basis of the Commando Order.

Dark Harvest Commando

The Dark Harvest Commando was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II.

Eric de la Torre

He took part in a commando raid on Vågsøy, Norway (Operation Archery) on 27 December 1941, in the capacity of radio operator.

Free Belgian Forces

These included an infantry formation, which later became the Brigade Piron, as well as Commando and Paratroop units.

Ghatak Force

Most undergo training at the Commando Training Course in Belgaum, Karnataka.

Ian Riches

The task given to 2 Commando Brigade was to clear the German defences on the eastern side of Lake Comacchio up to the line of the Valletta canal.

Indian Airlines Flight 427

Commandos from India's National Security Guard (NSG) rescued all 141 passengers and crew of the Indian Airlines Boeing 737, on the ground at Amritsar airport.

Iraqi Special Operations Forces

The 2nd Special Operations Brigade has four commando battalions 1440-men, currently at Basra, Mosul, Diyala and Al Asad.

Irish commandos

When some members of the Irish Transvaal Brigade disagreed with the leadership of the Brigade, they formed a second commando, or Second Irish Brigade unit, under Arthur Lynch.

Jack Higgins

Its plot (concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill) was fresh and innovative (although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.

James H. Coffman, Jr.

After bandaging his hand, Colonel Coffman picked up AK-47s from Commando casualties and fired them with his other hand until each ran out of ammunition.

John Durnford-Slater

In Italy he commanded the Commando brigade that undertook the capture of Termoli, before serving as deputy commander of the Special Service Group, a divisional level headquarters unit that planned and administered all commando operations during Operation Overlord and the advance into Germany.

KST Live 31.08.'95

The album features cover versions of KUD Idijoti "Pisma o ribaru Marinu, Mari i moru" and "Minijatura", Ramones "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Commando" and a version of The Clash cover of "I Fought the Law", with lyrics in Serbian language entitled "Ne mogu više".

Lake Tharthar Raid

The Lake Tharthar Raid was an Iraqi commando raid on a large insurgent training camp at Lake Tharthar on March 23, 2005.

Lennart Geijer

Geijer was Swedish Minister of Justice during the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in 1975, when Holger Meins's commando, of the armed left extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) took the West German Embassy in Skarpö Street in Gärdet in Stockholm.

Loaded march

After landing with 40 Commando at San Carlos, Holdgate accompanied British forces across the Falklands War zone taking hundreds of photographs.

Miklós Horthy, Jr.

As part of this operation, Miklós Jr. was kidnapped by German commandos (led by Otto Skorzeny) and threatened with death unless his father surrendered and agreed to appoint a new government of the Arrow Cross Party.

No. 1 Commando

By the autumn of 1940 more than 2,000 men had volunteered for Commando training, and what became known as the Special Service Brigade was formed into 12 units called Commandos.

In March 1945 the commando withdrew back to India to prepare for Operation Zipper, the planned invasion of Malaya.

Following the end of the war, No. 1 Commando undertook garrison duties in Hong Kong.

In 1943, No. 1 Commando also came under command the 3rd Special Service Brigade.

No. 50 Commando

Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Young, No. 50 Commando had an establishment of a small Headquarters and three Troops.

No. 52 Commando

No. 52 Commando was formed in the Middle East at Geneifa in August 1940, from volunteers from units serving in the Middle East and a small number of veterans from the Spanish Civil War who had escaped to Palestine after the French defeat in 1940.

Peter Scholl-Latour

In 1945 and 1946 Scholl-Latour was a member the Commando Parachutiste Ponchardier, a unit of French paratroopers, with whom he fought in the First Indochina War.

Rapid reaction force

When used in reference to police forces such as SWAT teams, the time frame is minutes, while in military applications, such as with the use of paratroops or other commandos, the time frame is hours to days.

Rolf Steiner

He rose to the level of Lt. Commander of the 4th Commando Brigade in the Biafran Army during the Nigerian Civil War, and later served with the Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan.

Sri Lanka Army Commando Regiment

A Commando squadron was formed in Gemunu Watch ‘B’ Camp at Diyatalawa and Maj S.D. Peiris GW was appointed officer commanding, and Capt. Sarath Handapangoda was appointed as 2nd In Command.

Star Wars: Republic Commando

The commando team travels to various locations in the Star Wars universe, including Kashyyyk, Geonosis, and the derelict spacecraft Prosecutor.

Steve Canyon Rangers

Steve Canyon (1947-'88), adventure comic strip with commando-like activities

Tan beret

69 Commando of the Royal Malaysia Police adopted the tan beret as part of their uniform after the beret was conferred by the United Kingdom's 22 SAS to the founding members of 69 Commando (also known as VAT 69 - Very Able Trooper 69) after completing SAS training in 1969.

The Road to the Isles

It is said to have been played by Bill Millen, piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, during the first day of the Normandy Landings on D-Day during World War II, during a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949.

Trondheim Airport, Lade

Widerøe set up a "commando center" in their hangar and installed VHF radios to communicate with aircraft.

V-42 stiletto

The V-42 stiletto was a stiletto and fighting knife issued during World War II to the First Special Service Force (1st SSF, aka Devil's Brigade), a joint Canadian/American commando unit.

Valmet M76

The Valmet M76, M72 and M78 have been used as props to simulate the AK-47 and related Soviet weapons in a number of US films during the Cold War, most notably Red Dawn, Commando and Firefox, most likely due to their availability.


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