Commando Magazine

23 June 2020

Commando - 5345 - Churchill's Commandos - “Enterprises must be prepared, with specially-trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts…” Eighty years ago, after the disaster at Dunkirk, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the formation of a special raiding unit with a brand-new breed of soldier. These brave and highly-trained men would come to be known as the British Commandos - a name that would strike terror in the hearts of every Nazi on the Atlantic Wall!