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Unidentified sergeant of the 1st Special Service Force, Anzio beachhead, Italy, 20th April 1944. The 1st Special Service Force, also called "The Devil's Brigade" and "The Black Devils" was an elite commando unit formed of Canadian and American volunteers. The unit was formed in 1942. The unit served in the Aleutian Islands, Italy and southern France before being disbanded in December 1944. It was at Anzio that the Germans dubbed the 1st Special Service Force the "Devil's Brigade". They were referred to as "Black Devils" because the unit members smeared their faces black boot polish for their covert operations in the dark of the night. During night patrols soldiers would carry stickers depicting the unit pathc and a slogan written in German (The worst is yet to come), placing these stickers on German corpses and fortifications.

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