Essay

Here, the history of the Austrians in No. 3 Troop and No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando will be explored. For reasons of readability, the text below does not contain any endnotes in the online presentation. These are included in the full version, which will be available here shortly as a complete file for download.

The Unknown: Austrians in the perhaps most secretive unit of the British Army in World War II

by Robert Lackner

  1. Special forces: facts & fiction
  2. British commandos in World War II
  3. Austrians in the British Army
  4. No. 3 Troop, No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando
  5. Admission to the elite
  6. Training in Wales, Scotland & England
  7. Into combat, part 1: Italy & France
  8. Into combat, part 2: from France to Germany
  9. No. 3 Troop in numbers
  10. In exile & in the army: a transatlantic comparison