The Bruneval Raid
"I'm reminded of the General who was watching special forces practicing for a raid on a German radar station on a cliff top in France".
That would have been the Bruneval raid, and believe it or not, I have an old mate here in NZ, Tom,ex-Seaforth Highlander, who was one of those parachuted in. They had an RAF Radar guy with them, a Flt Sgt Cox, and Tom confirmed when I asked him that they did indeed have orders to shoot Cox rather than let him be captured!
Tom subsequently returned to his regiment and went ashore on D-day, and carried on all the way to Germany. He is a wonderful man, now in his 80s of course, and the only hooliganism he shows today is when he gets into my Single Malt on Anzac Day!