Talk:Operation Pistol

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My name is Graham Alcock and SQMS J Alcock was my father. He never saw this report he wrote in 1944 but in telling me his oral story there are differences to note:- 1. He blew up a small troop train near Audviller shortly after landing. 2.At koecking he shot the German soldiers in the cottage when they were questioning the two girls. 3. He left his radio at the drop field where it was stolen by a fifteen-year-old boy. 4. The SS came to the door at Ferriendal farm when he was there and he nearly had to shoot them but they went away without searching the house. 5. He slept in a German Sergeant Major's bed during the day at one farm for two days-i.e. twice. 6. In 1983 he and I went to see the Frenchman, who as a fifteen-year-old boy, stole his radio receiver. But in the year 2009 he denied it. 7. He went on to be RSM 3 Para at Suez and later a Captain in 22 SAS at Hereford in the 1960s. 8 In 2009 I was given a letter that my father had written in 1944 and given to a French farmer who aided him on Operation Pistol. In the letter he thanks him for information he gave that allowed him to destroy the troop train in 1944. In 2015 I was in France researching Operation Pistol again. A resident of Insming told me that two German officers had been killed when my father blew the train off the rails. A local man was arrested and beaten up for two days on suspician he had wrecked the train. This allowed my fathers patrol to escape from the scene of the explosion.diff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grahamalcock (talk • contribs)