The Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945
The Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945
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About this book
Formed on 3 July 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the brilliant product of the vision of Major Ralph Bagnold of the Royal Corps of Signals. As a model for what is now commonly know as a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit, the Group can have few equals.
Contents
Introduction · The Concept: Early Days · Personnel · Organisation and Equipment · Command, Control and Communications · Operations · Chronology of Major Operations and Events in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, by both Conventional Forces and the LRDG
Paperback; July 1999; 48 pages; ISBN: 9781855329584