Probably the wrong place to post this, but after I read it in yesterday's Telegraph I just had to post it.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Danger
Lieutenant-Colonel David Danger, who has died aged 85, served with the SAS as a radio operator; he was parachuted into enemy-occupied France in 1944 and was later awarded a Military Medal.
In June 1944, Danger, then a corporal, was dropped near Dijon as a member of the main reconnaissance party for Operation Houndsworth. The mission's objective was to disrupt enemy lines of communication and prevent German units from moving up to Normandy to reinforce their offensive against the Allied bridgehead.
Danger's team established base camps and ammunition dumps in the forest and was constantly being hunted by the enemy. Medical facilities were very basic, and in the early weeks those who were badly wounded and could not be evacuated were operated upon on a kitchen table by a French surgeon. Full Obituary here
R.I.P. Colonel
Lieutenant-Colonel David Danger
Lieutenant-Colonel David Danger, who has died aged 85, served with the SAS as a radio operator; he was parachuted into enemy-occupied France in 1944 and was later awarded a Military Medal.
In June 1944, Danger, then a corporal, was dropped near Dijon as a member of the main reconnaissance party for Operation Houndsworth. The mission's objective was to disrupt enemy lines of communication and prevent German units from moving up to Normandy to reinforce their offensive against the Allied bridgehead.
Danger's team established base camps and ammunition dumps in the forest and was constantly being hunted by the enemy. Medical facilities were very basic, and in the early weeks those who were badly wounded and could not be evacuated were operated upon on a kitchen table by a French surgeon. Full Obituary here
R.I.P. Colonel