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The real-life WWII Rangers who make Steve McQueen and The Great Escape look like amateurs

The real-life WWII Rangers who make Steve McQueen and The Great Escape look like amateurs

One of the greatest yet most unheralded fighting units of World War II was so audacious, it made Steve McQueen and his band of POWs in The Great Escape look like amateurs.

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