Strategic Services

The Nazis need industrial diamonds to build precision instruments and harden tools. Germany has an eight months' supply. The only way the Germans can get more diamonds is for DeBeers Diamond Company to supply them through neutral Switzerland. Raiding Forces has been tasked with shutting down the illicit diamond buying.

Meanwhile, Colonel John Randal and a party of the 575th Parachute Infantry Regiment, a.k.a. the Rangers, make a combat jump on an artillery battery on the flank of Dieppe, working in conjunction with Lord Lovat’s No. 4 Commando.

And later, during Operation Torch, Colonel Randal leads a party of the 10th Ranger Battalion up a 12-mile river aboard the destroyer USS Dallas to capture the Port Lyautey airfield in one of the most daring operations of World War Two.