Military Despatches Vol 24 June 2019 Operation Deadstick A mission vital to D-Day Remembering D-Day Marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day Forged in Battle The Katyusha MRLS, Stalin’s Organ Isoroku Yamamoto The architect of Pearl Harbour Thank your lucky stars Life in the North Korean military For the military enthusiast CONTENTS June 2019 Page 62 Click on any video below to view Page 14 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 Thank your lucky stars techno-speak that few Serving in the North Korean Military outside the military could hope to under- 32 stand. Some of the terms Features were humorous, some Rank Structure 6 This month we look at the Ca- were clever, while others nadian Armed Forces. were downright crude. Top Ten Wartime Urban Legends Ten disturbing wartime urban 36 legends that turned out to be A matter of survival Part of Hipe’s “On the fiction. This month we’re looking at couch” series, this is an 10 constructing bird traps. interview with one of Special Forces - Canada 29 author Herman Charles Part Four of a series that takes Jimmy’s get together Quiz Bosman’s most famous a look at Special Forces units We attend the Signal’s Associ- characters, Oom Schalk around the world. ation luncheon and meet a 98 47 year old World War II veteran. A taxi driver was shot Lourens. Hipe spent time in 20 SADF Stuff Hanover Park, an area This month our quiz is all about dead in an ongoing Air Force One war between rival taxi plagued with gang 30 the old South African Defence violence, to view first- As Commander-in-Chief of the Force. How much do you re- organisations. US Military, the US President Our own Lord Haw-Haw(s) member? hand how Project has his own aircraft. German propaganda broadcast- Ceasefire is dealing with er William Joyce, better known the situation. 22 as Lord Haw-Haw, was hanged after World War II for treason. Hipe TV brings you videos ranging from actuality to humour and every- Remembering D-Day But did you know that South thing in between. Interviews, mini-documentaries and much more. We mark the 75th anniversary Africa had their own versions of D-Day with some facts and of Lord Haw-Haw? Check out Hipe TV and remember to like, comment, share and subscribe. figures. 00 3 CONTENTS Page 68 Editor’s PUBLISHER Sitrep Hipe Media EDITOR Matt Tennyson DEPUTY EDITOR an you believe that this different war to ours. John Verster month Military Des- I was fascinated to find out PHOTO EDITOR patches is two years old. more about the North Korean June in military history C Regine Lord No wonder I look so old and military. The guys have to do buggered. 10 years compulsory national CONTRIBUTORS Head-to-Head Forged in Battle Book Review When I started this online service. And our lot complained Dr Brian Austin, Raymond magazine I hoped that a few about doing two years. And to Fletcher, Ryan Murphy, Matt 38 54 65 people would actually read it. discover that most of them are O’Brien, Paul Rosslee, Matt Point of the Dagger I had no idea that within two starving. At least we got fed. If Weapons & Equipment of D-Day Stalin’s Organ Tennyson, Rev Ralph Thornley. Peet Coetzee’s excellent book years we would have more than you find yourself at war with This month we take a look at The Soviet Katyusha MRLS, on Recce Small Team opera- 100,000 readers in 32 countries. North Korea, all you’d have to some of the weapons and equip- Stalin’s Organ. Military Despatches is pub- tions. Now imagine if every reader do is wave a tin of bully beef at lished on-line every month. ment of D-Day. paid just one Rand to read it. them and they’ll probably sur- Battlefield The articles used in Military Front Cover But, as I said when we start- render on the spot. Despatches are copyrighted Famous Figures 58 ed, the magazine will always Reverend Ralph Thornley and may not be used without Operation Deadstick A BM-21 Grad MRLS in ac- be free for anyone that wants to sent me two photographs (they prior permission from the edi- 48 tion. An earlier model, the BM- Vital to the success of D-Day, read it. appear on page 28). The first tor. Isoroku Yamamoto 13, was nicknamed ‘Katyusha’ So, this month marks the photograph is of an entire bat- British airborne forces launch The views stated in this mag- Japanese Fleet Admiral of the by the Russians, and ‘Stalin’s 75th anniversary of the D-Day talion of the Cameron High- a raid to capture and hold two azine do not necessary reflect Imperial Japanese Navy, Com- Organ’ by the Germans during landings in Normandy. I can re- landers. It was taken in 1914, important bridges. the views of Hipe!, the editor, mander-in-chief of the Com- World War II. member as a young boy speak- just before they left for the the staff, or Hipe Media. bined Fleet during WW II, and ing to a number of men that ac- front. the architect of Pearl Harbour. tually took part in the landings. The second photo shows Hipe! Gaming It makes me feel kind of old. the same battalion in 1918 af- P.O. Box 31216, Tokai, 7966 62 Imagine what it must have ter they returned from the war. South Africa. felt like, sitting in a landing There are only 27 of them left. ARMA 3 DLC craft, heading for the beach- It makes you want to cry. email Add-ons to the popular military es. That fear of the unknown, [email protected] simulator. not knowing what will happen Until next month. when you hit the beaches. Have Back Issues Movie Review the Germans discovered the To view any back issues of 64 time and place of the landing, Military Despatches, go to and will they be waiting? Will www.militarydespatches.co.za Tora, tora, tora! you be greeted by witheringly or click here. Epic movie about the attack on machine gun fire? It was a very Matt Pearl Harbour. 4 5 Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten Wartime Urban Legends War is often filled with confusion, propaganda, and disturbing rumours. It’s often difficult to tell fact from fiction. Here are ten disturbing wartime urban legends. his month we’re taking a special installation suppos- guess. It seems an odd kind a look at ten disturbing edly operated by the Germans of thing to do. But conspiracy Turban legends that orig- in which, because fats were so theorists argued that the whole inated in wartime. scarce in Germany due to the thing was a cover-up for a more Some of them were no more British naval blockade, German cunning purpose. Especially af- than propaganda to show the battlefield corpses were ren- ter the whale arrived in Hunga- enemy in a bad light. Others dered down for fat, which was ry. were as a result of rumours and then used to manufacture nitro- Allegedly, the CIA wanted hearsay. And others were as a glycerine, candles, lubricants, to test if the roads of Hungary result of the “fog of war”. and even boot dubbin. could handle the weight of nu- The fog of war is the uncer- It was supposedly operated clear missiles loaded on trucks. tainty in situational awareness behind the front lines by the According to conspiracy the- experienced by participants in DAVG — Deutsche Abfall-Ver- orists, the truck carrying the military operations. wertungs Gesellschaft. whale eerily resembled ones The term seeks to capture After the war, in 1925, John used to carry nuclear missiles. TERROR OF THE NIGHT: During World War II, Italian household believed that Pippo was a ghostly plane that would appear at night to bomb your house. the uncertainty regarding one’s Charteris, the British former However, no concrete proof own capability, adversary capa- Chief of Army Intelligence, al- was ever presented. And the Though the stories of the zealots became so frequent story is true. Reports from 1911 bility, and adversary intent dur- legedly stated in a speech that strangest thing of all is that the White Tights seem a little far- that military commander John suggest the Pershing actively ing an engagement, operation, he had invented the story for Hungarian peopled loved Jonah fetched, they do have a ring of Pershing came up with an unu- attempted to negotiate peace- or campaign. propaganda purposes, with the and tickets were sold out every- truth about them. It’s a well- sual and sneak solution. fully with the Moros people. The word “fog” in reference principal aim of getting the where he went. known fact that even during the The story goes that Pershing to uncertainty in war was intro- Chinese to join the war against Russian Civil War in 1918, the played up on the belief that 6. Pippo the Ghost Plane duced by the Prussian military Germany. 8. Beliye Kolgotky Russians trained and employed any Muslim who touched a Nearly every culture has tales analyst Carl von Clausewitz It was later used by the Nazis Stories about the Beliye Kol- woman as snipers. pig would not be able to enter about scary things that frequent in his posthumously published as part of their own anti-British gotky, or White Tights, started Not only were they patient and heaven.