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Since the end of the Second World War, this audacious operation has remained little known amongst the public or military in the United Kingdom. It was an incredible endeavour executed by British and Australian service personnel. The deepest surface waterborne penetration behind enemy occupied lines undertaken by special forces of WW2. This hand-picked band of men would achieve what some thought to be impossible, a major strike at the very heart of the Japanese in their newly acquired Empire in South East Asia. This story ranks and deserves the same acknowledgment as exploits such as the Dambusters or Cockleshell Heroes. In the words of British Generals and US Admirals and Commanders, it achieved what everyone thought was impossible, without loss and with the minimum expenditure of resources. A terrible twist in the tail is that by not using the success of the mission as a propaganda victory as had been intended by Jaywick's commanders, a terrible price was paid by local Singaporeans who were scapegoated by the Japanese Secret Police. This is perhaps the reason that Operation Jaywick was never hailed with the success it truly deserved. The highly effective delivery of Operation Jaywick gave a green light to an even more ambitious endeavour from which no British or Australian personnel would survive, many being executed, beheaded by their Japanese captors. The Tiger's Revenge is the story told by the son of a Special Operations Executive crew member who was the only British survivor of Operation Jaywick.

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Vice Admiral Christie, Commander of the United States Pacific Submarine Operations, gave a truly accurate assessment of Operation Jaywick when he wrote in his diary: “Ivan Lyon is an extremely brave man; possibly the bravest man I have ever met. Almost a single-handed endeavour of extremely bold pattern. My hat is off to them. Someday his exploits will be disclosed, and they will read stranger than any fiction.” ///// “There is little I can add to the stirring account of a great raid, told in the words of the gallant bunch of men who dared to challenge the Japanese at the height of their power in the Pacific. The story relates how a party left Australia on 1 September, 1943, and sailed nearly 3,000 miles through enemy controlled waters to strike a crippling blow at the heart of the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere.” ///// Major-General Sir Collin Gubbins kcmg, dso, mc., Special Operations Executive Commander of Sabotage and Subversion Overseas, wrote of Operation Jaywick: “Tomorrow we will do what is possible… the impossible will take longer. Badly stated, the project was fantastic – to penetrate directly to the enemy’s heart, to attack him at his strongest point, and yet it was done, and carried through without loss and with minimum expenditure of resources. Truly it was epic.” ///// Corporal A P G Campbell (Operation Rimau) Said of Ivan Lyon “Not only did he appear to know everything but he could do everything associated with the job for which we were trained perfectly. He was a leader for whom every one of us would be willing to die”

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Evan Morris MBE is the son of crew member Ronald Morris of Operation Jaywick and was a member of the Special Operations Executive. Evan has written widely on the subject of Policing and Community Safety. Tiger's Revenge is his first book, which is a tribute to his father, the crew and military success of Operation Jaywick.

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