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EXCLUSIVE 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.
The First American Ranger Battalion – otherwise known as Darby's Rangers after its commander Major William Orlando Darby - was composed of 500 dangerous men seeking dangerous missions.