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During World War II, Operation Gaff was a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos, who parachuted into German-occupied France on 18 July 1944, with the aim of killing or kidnapping German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. From March 1943, Allied Intelligence had been undertaking research on the whereabouts, bases and travel arrangements of Field Marshal Rommel. Part of the research asked the question of how feasible it would be to kill Rommel. After D-Day, the Allies were meeting fierce resistance, marshalled by Rommel, with Hitler's orders to stand firm at all costs. With losses mounting, Field Marshal Montgomery agreed to a plan to remove Rommel from the battle plan.〔William B. Breuer, (''Daring missions of World War II'' ), pp.131-133, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 ISBN 0471150878.〕 After SAS Lieutenant-Colonel William Fraser was told the location of Rommel's headquarters, a chateau home of the Dukes de La Rochefoucauld in the village of La Roche-Guyon, Brigadier R.W. McLeod assigned six specially-trained assassins led by French SAS Captain Jack William Raymond Lee.〔("Couraud, Raymond" ), World War 2.com. Retrieved and (archived ) 25 May 2012.〕 On July 18, Lee and his team parachuted into Orléans; they found that Rommel had been severely injured the previous day after his staff car had been overturned in an attack by RAF Hawker Typhoons and replaced by Günther von Kluge.〔 With their plan redundant, they moved toward advancing US Army lines on foot, while ambushing trains and attacking German units along their route, including a German headquarters in Mantes. They reached US forces and safety on 12 August.〔("Le Captain Lee-Couraud & le 'French Squadron' du DU 2nd S.A.S Regiment" ), ''Association SAS'', retrieved and (archived ) 25 May 2012 (in French).〕 ==See also== *Operation Flipper, an earlier attempt to kill Rommel in North Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Gaff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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