The Long-Range Desert Group (LRDG), the forerunners of the Special Air Service (SAS), painted their jeeps a pink colour when serving in the North African desert in WWII -- pink being a suitable camoflauge colour in the Sahara. The SAS followed suit and painted their vehicles in Aden (Yemen) and Oman in the 1960's pink, and christened them "Pink Panthers"!

Kit mentioned the St. Nazaire raid -- one of the more colourful characters of WWII Was Major "Mad Jack" Churchill, an officer in No. 3 Commando who carried a Highland basket-hilt broadsword on Commando raids, piped his troops ashore, and also brough his bow & arrows with him!

The British Commandos trained at Achnacarry, Scotland (in Cameron country, if memory serves me), and also trained the US Army Rangers, led by Col. Wiliam O. Darby, who was born about three hours south of where I am, in Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

Cheers,

Todd