Rangers first combat mission WWII

Baptism of Fire: The First Rangers in North Africa

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Rangers Through the FireBy the fall of 1942, the newly formed U.S. Army Rangers had completed their grueling training in Scotland. Volunteers had been pushed to their limits at the Commando training center, learning night raids, amphibious assaults, demolitions, and small-unit tactics. Now it was time to find out if the experiment worked. …