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Military Despatches Vol 22 April 2019 Armed Forces Week The SANDF demonstrates its capability Forged in battle The Roman Legion Tasty Rat packs from around the world Dwight Eisenhower Five-star general, Supreme Commander, President of the United States, Ike did it all Worst of the worst Top Ten notorious Nazis For the military enthusiast CONTENTS April 2019 Page 62 Click on any video below to view How much do you know about movie theme songs? Take our quiz and find out. Hipe’s Wouter de The old South African Goede interviews former Defence Force used 28’s gang boss David a mixture of English, Williams. Afrikaans, slang and Forged in battle techno-speak that few The Roman Legion outside the military could hope to under- 38 stand. Some of the terms Features were humorous, some Rank Structure 6 This month we look at the Ar- were clever, while others gentinian Army. were downright crude. Top Ten notorious Nazis The worst of the worst. 44 A matter of survival Part of Hipe’s “On the 12 This month we’re looking at couch” series, this is an Special Forces - Australia deadfall traps. interview with one of Part Two of a series that takes 26 a look at Special Forces units author Herman Charles Change of Command Quiz Bosman’s most famous around the world. Sea Cadet Training Ship Knys- characters, Oom Schalk 18 na changes command 37 Lourens. A taxi driver was shot Hipe spent time in Perils of the German general 28 Jets Hanover Park, an area During World War II one of the Since first introduced in World dead in an ongoing Sandblasted and blown away war between rival taxi plagued with gang most dangerous jobs was being War II, jets have ruled the sky. violence, to view first- a German general. The Armed Forces invade Table We show you 15, you tell us organisations. View! Story and photographs what they are. hand how Project 22 by Regine Lord. Ceasefire is dealing with Drumming up support the situation. Sea Cadets at Armed Forces Day. 36 Hipe TV brings you videos ranging from actuality to humour and every- 24 thing in between. Interviews, mini-documentaries and much more. St Patrick’s Day bash Soldier’s Songs Military Despatches holds its Check out Hipe TV and remember to like, comment, share and subscribe. Songs about soldiers. first get together. 00 3 CONTENTS Page 78 Editor’s PUBLISHER Sitrep Hipe Media EDITOR Matt Tennyson DEPUTY EDITOR o, March has come and ding. Don’t get used to it. I have John Verster gone and before we know a feeling that Eskom’s prob- it we’ll be in the middle lems and load shedding is not PHOTO EDITOR April in military history S Regine Lord of the year. going to vanish any time soon. I had a pretty good St. Pat- I’m just waiting for Stage Eight CONTRIBUTORS Head-to-Head Battlefield Book Review rick’s Day, or so I’ve been told load shedding. That’s when Raymond Fletcher, Regine by those that were there. My Eskom come around to your Lord, Ryan Murphy, Matt 48 70 77 liver really appreciates the fact house, blow out your candles, O’Brien, Matt Tennyson, Lt Cdr As the Crow Flies that St Paddy’s Day only comes and take the batteries from your Military Ration Packs Operation Carthage Glenn von Zeil. Colonel Delville Linford’s expe- around once a year. Then again, torch. We compare ration packs from In Spring 1945, as the Gestapo riences with 31 Battalion. I guess it doesn’t help that I The article on page 48 should Military Despatches is pub- around the world. ruthlessly clamped down on spend the remaining 364 days bring back memories for all lished on-line every month. growing resistance movements, of the year training for the big those that remember the de- The articles used in Military Mosquito squadrons of the RAF day. lights of feasting from a rat staged daring pin-point attacks Despatches are copyrighted Famous Figures Front Cover Once again I was impressed pack. I’ve been lucky enough and may not be used without on the headquarters of the Nazi with the photographs from our to sample ration packs from a prior permission from the edi- 56 secret police. Members of the hostage rescue very own photo editor, Regine number of different countries tor. Dwight D. Eisenhower team fast-rope onto the beach Lord. Reggie has an amazing during my travels. Some of during the SANDF Capability The views stated in this mag- West Point graduate, five-star eye for a photograph. them were incredible and better Gaming Revue in Cape Town. azine do not necessary reflect general, supreme commander, I had earmarked four pages than some of the food I’ve been the views of Hipe!, the editor, president of the United States for her article and was planning served in restaurants. Others, 74 the staff, or Hipe Media. of America. ‘Ike’ did it all. on using four photographs. I however, left a lot to be desired. Hearts of Iron IV ended up bumping the article to In fact they made our own rat Hipe! One of the best World War II eight pages and used nine pho- packs look, and taste, like a P.O. Box 31216, Tokai, 7966 strategy games on the market. tographs. I also used one of her five-star meal. South Africa. But not the easiest to play. photos for the front cover. I also found the article on Oh, by the way, this makes page 18 interesting. I had no email this issue of Military Despatch- idea that Hitler had so many of [email protected] Movie Review es the biggest one we’ve done his generals executed. No won- to date - 96 pages to be exact. der he remained a corporal. Back Issues 76 The previous largest issue was To view any back issues of Full Metal Jacket last month with 88 pages. Until next month. Military Despatches, go to A Stanley Kubrick classic well I’m busy typing this on Tues- www.militarydespatches.co.za worth watching, and one of the day 26 March and for three or click here. better Vietnam War movies. days we’ve had no load shed- Matt 4 5 Top Ten Top Ten dirt. The next row would then 7. Reinhard Heydrich in the wake of the German ar- climb into the trench and the mies and murdered over two Top Ten notorious Nazis process would be repeated. million people, including 1.3 After the end of World War million Jews, by mass shooting The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, better known as the Nazi Party, had some of the II, Jeckeln was convicted for and gassing. most despicable characters in history. Here are ten of the most notorious. his crimes by a Soviet military Heydrich was critically tribunal in Riga, Latvia and ex- wounded in Prague on 27 May n Germany from 1933 to executed by hanging. 10. Ernst Kaltenbrunner ecuted in 1946. 1942. He was ambushed by 1945 National Socialism a team of Czech and Slovak seemed to bring out the 9. Friedrich Jeckeln I 8. Odilo Globočnik agents who had been trained by worst in people. The following the British Special Operations ten individuals were probably Executive. Heydrich died from the worst of the worst. his injuries a week later. Not every German was a Nazi. In fact the German military had 6. Hermann Göring some exceptional soldiers that would have done justice to any army, navy or air force. Many historians regard Re- The Nazis did, however, have inhard Heydrich as the darkest some of the most harsh, cruel, figure within the Nazi elite. Ad- prejudice and bloodthirsty indi- olf Hitler described him as “the viduals in history. man with the iron heart”. Drawing up a list of the top Heydrich was a main archi- ten notorious Nazis was not that Kaltenbrunner was an Austri- tect of the Holocaust. He was easy, mainly because the list an-born senior official of Nazi an SS-Obergruppenführer und was so long and there were so Germany during World War II. Jeckeln was a German SS General der Polizei (Senior many to choose from. An Obergruppenführer (gen- commander during the Nazi Group Leader and General of To start with, here are some eral) in the Schutzstaffel (SS), era. He served as a Higher SS Globočnik was a Nazi and Police) as well as chief of the individuals that were consid- between January 1943 and and Police Leader in the occu- later an SS leader. As an associ- Reich Main Security Office (in- ered for the list: May 1945 he held the offices pied Soviet Union during World ate of Adolf Eichmann, he had cluding the Gestapo, Kripo, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Herman Fegelein, Elisabeth of Chief of the Reich Main Se- War II. a leading role in Operation Re- SD). Göring was a veteran World Volkenrath, Josef Kramer, curity Office (Reichssicherheit- Jeckeln was the commander inhard, which saw the murder He was also Stellvertretend- War I fighter pilot ace, he was a Paul Blobel, Ilse Koch, Wal- shauptamt; RSHA). of one of the largest collection of over one million mostly Pol- er Reichsprotektor (Deputy/ recipient of the Pour le Mérite ter Rauff, Franz Stangl, Josef He was tall, with a face cov- of Einsatzgruppen death squads ish Jews during the Holocaust Acting Reich-Protector) of Bo- (“The Blue Max”). He was Schwammberger, Erich Prieb- ered in deep duelling scars. He and was personally responsible in Nazi extermination camps hemia and Moravia.