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Operation Freshman: Rjukan Heavy Water Raid, 1942
By Richard Wiggan
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume II: 1942-1945
By Nigel West
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 54729" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Drakopoulos</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>George (Taffy)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Commando Company</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Warrant Officer Second Class</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17th February 1960</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>34</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Springvale, Greater Dandenong City, Victoria, Australia</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Geelong,Victoria</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1926</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Emmanuel George and Asimema (nee Scardodinos) Drakopoulos</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Rita Drakopoulos</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>drowned in training in Bass Strait,off Victoria</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-drakopoulos.25746/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/25/25746-ec77d726cd3b543f5a7de4a9cce13b1a.jpg?1591433298" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">On the evening of February 17, 1960, 74 commandos from 2 Commando Company set off in army watercraft on a training exercise from Point Lonsdale to Point Nepean in Victoria , simulating a raid which involved them crossing the infamous Rip at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><em>The weather changed without warning and the watercraft were swept out to sea through the Port Phillip heads encountering massive seas and some capsized.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><em>George "Taffy" Drakopoulos and Eddie Meyer drowned before they could be rescued.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Roger Wood, selflessly helped his fellow Commandos up a rope ladder on a larger rescue vessel to safety from a Zodiac inflatable, only then to be flung into the sea and lost somewhere beyond The Rip.</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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