Strategic Services - Phil Ward - Bog

Nazi's need industrial diamonds for precision instruments and to harden tools. Germany has an eight month supply. Hitler can only get more diamonds if DeBeers Diamonds supplies them through Switzerland. Raiding Forces has been tasked with shutting down Nazi diamond buying. Meanwhile, Col. John Randal and a party of the 575th make a jump on an artillery battery on the flank of Dieppe.. During OPERATON TORCH, Col. Randal leads a party of the 10th Ranger Battalion up a 12 mile river onboard the destroyer USS Dallas to capture the Port Layety airfield in one of the most daring operations of WWII.