Operation Flipper 1941 - The Commando Raid on Erwin Rommel

Hello and welcome to The AceDestroyer. In this video: a daring raid by the No. 11 Commandoes and Erwin Rommel’s headquarters in Libya. In this video you will find out more what happened to the commandoes tasked with eliminating or capturing of one of German’s finest Generals. The whole raid was called operation Flipper or the Rommel Raid.

INFO:
Ligne de front No. 74: Opération Flipper, assassiner Rommel ! by Loïc Becker
Kill Rommel ! Operation Flipper 1941 (Osprey publishing) by G. Mortimer
Get Rommel: The secret British mission to kill Hitler’s Greatest General (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by M. Asher
Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel by S Mitcham
https://www.scribd.com/document/323661358/The-Raid-on-Rommel-s-Headquarters

FOOTAGE:
Die Deutsche Wochenschau (554, 561 & 558 (1940 and 1941)) as found on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-R3qtRwWh_Gs8rcHw2MpQ

Pictures are all from Wikipedia

MUSIC:
Desert Caravan
Outcast
Dark Forest
Slow Hammers

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