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From: roger@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Roger Safian)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Why need US Marines vs US Army?
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.032136.3363@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 03:21:36 GMT
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From: roger@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Roger Safian)
In article <1990Dec22.033901.23717@cbnews.att.com> jln@elaine39.stanford.edu (Jared Nedzel) writes:
> [Moderator: wasn't it a
>Waffen SS, unit, lead by Otto Skorzeny (sp?) that resuced Il Duce in
>what is perhaps the prototypical special operation?]
>
>[mod.note: Gee, way to put me on the spot!  I'm not sure; my first
>guess would have been paratroops.  - Bill ]

Bill,

    You are right.  Otto was the only member of the SS in the assault, and
he forced himself in the plane with the Duce, and made sure that the SS
got all the credit.

                                                       Roger