Operation Amherst was a Free French SAS attack designed to capture intact Dutch canals, bridges and airfields during World War II. It was led by brigadier Mike Calvert of Chindit fame.
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“Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a single piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.”
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