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Article: Kings at the heart of se eecret T-Force; William Leece discovers the untold story of the Kings Regiment's final campaign in the last days of the Second World War.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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Byline: William Leece
BY RIGHTS, the men of 5th Battalion The Kings Regiment should have put their weapons down and waited for the formal end of the Second World War in Europe.
Hitler was dead, Berlin had fallen and a ceasefire had been called pending the formal act of surrender. There were just hours to go.
But 5th Kings were ordinary soldiers on an extraordinary mission. The regiment, which recruited mainly in Liverpool, was part of the Target Force, TForce, devised back in London to seize as many German war secrets, and the men behind them, as they could.
And with an eye on the likely shape of post-war Europe, they had also been ...