Raiding Forces Small Operations Group with Colonel John Randal in command makes a night drop on the Italian held Island of Castelrozzo.
The plan is to capture the island in order to use it as a base of operations for Commando raids on Axis held islands in the Aegean Sea.
Admiral Sir Razor Ransom, the Deputy Commander of Operations (Irregular), wants Raiding Forces to reorganize into a small scale amphibious raiding unit.
With Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps driven off the continent of A.