Kilts in the Raid on St. Nazaire

[g koch]

Don't know if this has been mentioned before: the kilted commandos in the 1942 raid on the Nornamdie Dry Dock at St. Nazaire, France.
http://scotsatwar.co.uk/printerv/stnazaire.htm
http://www.army.mod.uk/kcr/acoy/live...sh_platoon.htm

The soldiers had to get permission to wear their kilts as they were no longer battledress.

This Google Books link to the Osprey "Army Commandos, 1940-1945"
by Mike Chappell has a description of the gear and the cover has an illustration of a commando in kilt.
http://tinyurl.com/yokvhm

Read a book on it several years ago. It's quite a story.

Out there some where I've seen photos taken by the Germans of captured survivors, some of them kilted.

Wish we had a Kilts in History forum category!