This heroine was none other than Hildr von Spanckwürst (more of her story from Vaggers) and there she was in the officer’s mess of MGB 69, calmly tossing back shots of Pusser’s rum. Snappers and Vaggers should have been angry but, as the rum took effect, they saw the funny side of it. ‘Dapper’ was very keen to get Hilde back to London and had dispatched the best men he could find, so that Hilde was not destined to languish in German captivity.If we were the best men he could find God help SOE.
I'll expand on Hildr's story in due course, once I've cured her of that nasty habit and I don't mean wearing stockings with elan.
There seems to be some confusion amongst the readers of this thread that Snappers and Vaggers are a pair of bumbling buffoons and it was amazingly lucky that we were able to execute this daring and perfectly timed rescue. All I can say is when Snappers is in charge (of reading the rules) we do incredibly well. He's my hero!
Excellent! A well planned and well executed mission. What went wrong?
This is exactly the sort of scurrilous misinformation I'm referring to.
A thrilling yarn! Great AAR, and there I was thinking the usual chaos was about to ensue at every turn. But no, a very professional job done by the time travelling special forces!
As is this!
Fantastic! ..and without the normal "hold my beer" moments. Drinks all around and I concur with Doug about Hildr!
And this.
But with these few exceptions thanks for your kind comments and a very well done to Snappers for writing the better part of the intrepid story.
Cheers