OSS Troops Murdered

26th March 1944: A US Special Forces mission behind the lines in Italy falls victim to Hitler's notorious 'Commando Order'

The modern-day memorial to the men in the town of Ameglia, Italy.

The activities of the British Commandos, in mounting raiding parties in occupied Europe, had so irritated Hitler that in 1942, he had personally issued an order that men caught on such operations were to be summarily executed.

This did not deter the United States from forming the Office of …