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March-Phillipps was a special operations veteran who proved remarkably successful in his missions. [1]In The Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings noted: "In January 1942 he launched Operation Postmaster, a picaresque 'cutting-out expedition', which seized two Italian merchantmen from the neutral Spanish colonial port of Santa Isabel in West Africa, and towed them triumphantly to Lagos."
While being under operational control of Combined Operations Headquarters, No. 62 Commando itself was under the command of Major Gus March-Phillipps. [6] Maid Honor, a 65-ton Brixham yacht trawler, left Poole harbour on 9 August 1941, bound for West Africa. [7] The five man crew were under the command of March-Phillipps. [8]
In February 1942, the Small Scale Raiding Force is formed under the command of Gus March-Phillipps. [9]: 8 Following March-Phillipps' death on 12 September 1942 during the disastrous Operation Aquatint, leadership of the unit briefly fell to its second in command, Captain Geoffrey Appleyard.
The plan calls for renegades with little respect for the rules, led by a cocky ex-criminal named Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill), who’s released from prison and called into a top-secret briefing.
Operation Postmaster involved a group of special operatives, led by Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill), who were tasked with destroying ships used to supply the German U-boats then terrorizing ...
Bond appears to be an amalgamation of different real agents, and the film itself alludes to him being based on Cavill's Gus March-Phillipps. “[They] became the forerunners of James Bond,” Amel ...
The commander of the SSRF, Major 'Gus' March-Phillipps, would lead the raid. [8] His second in command, Captain Geoffrey Appleyard, would remain on board the MTB due to an injury acquired on a previous mission.
The film is an exaggerated spin on the real-life mission known as Operation Postmaster, while Cavill’s character – army commando Gus March-Phillipps – has long been speculated to have been ...