How the British SAS Gunned Down 500 Germans Behind Enemy Lines
British SAS Archives
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There is a report on a desk in London in the autumn of 1944. It is typed, it is signed, it is nine pages long, and the officer reading it does not believe a word of it. Five hundred German soldiers killed or wounded. Ninety-five vehicles destroyed, twenty-three of them staff cars. A troop train shot to pieces. A hundred-thousand-gallon fuel dump burned to the sky. He checks the strength of the unit that claims to have done it. Sixty men. Twenty jeeps. Seven dead. One month. Then he reads the commanding officer's name, and he stops checking. The name is Roy Farran.
This documentary tells the true story of Operation Wallace, the deep-penetration raid carried out by a single squadron of the Second Special Air Service Regiment behind German lines in France in August and September 1944. From a drop near Rennes to the forests of Burgundy and the edge of the Vosges, sixty men in twenty jeeps ran two hundred miles into territory the German army still believed it owned — cut off from any relieving force, any hospital, and any headquarters that could have countermanded a single order.
Discover how Farran's flying column turned a squadron into the arithmetic of a division: how they ambushed convoys, wrecked a troop train and a fuel dump, destroyed ninety-five vehicles, and inflicted five hundred casualties for the loss of seven men — and why the Distinguished Service Order for the operation was gazetted not to Roy Farran, but to a man who did not exist.
🔥 In this video:
The Impossible Ledger: 500 killed or wounded, 95 vehicles, 23 staff cars, a troop train and a 100,000-gallon fuel dump — against seven British dead.
Sixty Men, Twenty Jeeps: how one 2 SAS squadron operated 200 miles deep with no relief, no hospital, and no HQ within reach.
The Farran Method: fast, jeep-borne, hit-and-vanish raiding that made a single squadron look like an invasion.
Cut Off From Command: why no headquarters could recall or countermand a single order once the column was loose.
The Cover Name: why the DSO for Operation Wallace was awarded in the name of "Patrick McGinty" — because the real name was still too dangerous to print.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Farran, R. (1948) *Winged Dagger: Adventures on Special Service*. Collins, London.
Macintyre, B. (2016) *SAS: Rogue Heroes*. Viking, London.
Mortimer, G. (2011) *The SAS in World War II*. Osprey Publishing, Oxford.
Asher, M. (2007) *The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS*. Viking, London.
The National Archives (UK), WO 218 series — Special Air Service War Diaries and Operation Reports.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#OperationWallace #SAS #WW2History #RoyFarran #SpecialAirService #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #WorldWarII #BehindEnemyLines #FrenchResistance #MilitaryHistory
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Are the stories also fake?
How the British SAS Gunned Down 500 Germans Behind Enemy Lines
British SAS Archives
2,930 views
#OperationWallace #SAS #WW2History
There is a report on a desk in London in the autumn of 1944. It is typed, it is signed, it is nine pages long, and the officer reading it does not believe a word of it. Five hundred German soldiers killed or wounded. Ninety-five vehicles destroyed, twenty-three of them staff cars. A troop train shot to pieces. A hundred-thousand-gallon fuel dump burned to the sky. He checks the strength of the unit that claims to have done it. Sixty men. Twenty jeeps. Seven dead. One month. Then he reads the commanding officer's name, and he stops checking. The name is Roy Farran.
This documentary tells the true story of Operation Wallace, the deep-penetration raid carried out by a single squadron of the Second Special Air Service Regiment behind German lines in France in August and September 1944. From a drop near Rennes to the forests of Burgundy and the edge of the Vosges, sixty men in twenty jeeps ran two hundred miles into territory the German army still believed it owned — cut off from any relieving force, any hospital, and any headquarters that could have countermanded a single order.
Discover how Farran's flying column turned a squadron into the arithmetic of a division: how they ambushed convoys, wrecked a troop train and a fuel dump, destroyed ninety-five vehicles, and inflicted five hundred casualties for the loss of seven men — and why the Distinguished Service Order for the operation was gazetted not to Roy Farran, but to a man who did not exist.
🔥 In this video:
The Impossible Ledger: 500 killed or wounded, 95 vehicles, 23 staff cars, a troop train and a 100,000-gallon fuel dump — against seven British dead.
Sixty Men, Twenty Jeeps: how one 2 SAS squadron operated 200 miles deep with no relief, no hospital, and no HQ within reach.
The Farran Method: fast, jeep-borne, hit-and-vanish raiding that made a single squadron look like an invasion.
Cut Off From Command: why no headquarters could recall or countermand a single order once the column was loose.
The Cover Name: why the DSO for Operation Wallace was awarded in the name of "Patrick McGinty" — because the real name was still too dangerous to print.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Farran, R. (1948) *Winged Dagger: Adventures on Special Service*. Collins, London.
Macintyre, B. (2016) *SAS: Rogue Heroes*. Viking, London.
Mortimer, G. (2011) *The SAS in World War II*. Osprey Publishing, Oxford.
Asher, M. (2007) *The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS*. Viking, London.
The National Archives (UK), WO 218 series — Special Air Service War Diaries and Operation Reports.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#OperationWallace #SAS #WW2History #RoyFarran #SpecialAirService #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #WorldWarII #BehindEnemyLines #FrenchResistance #MilitaryHistory
Also the Vickers K machine guns were NOT belt fed weapons, they had I think 48 round DRUM magazines.