"Wild Goose Daredevil" hat badge is a mess, why is it regarded as a military film costume classic? I.. The hat emblem with the highest gold content in the film II. Peter and the black child Jesse belong to the Red Devil Parachute Regiment III: "The man who hit me concussion is not good" Which special forces is Zucker? IV.. "Aunt" Arthur's hat emblem is best recognized V. Colonel Faulkner's unit dates back to the "era of the line infantry" VI. Raven from the British Army's Heroic Unit of the Green Jacket Corps VII. Lieutenant Sean was Prince William's master brother

The author | Hayashi Ono

" Seventeenth-century Irish mercenaries named Wild Goose provided inspiration for the film's title. ”

The Wild Geese (1978)

Careful students will find that the four officers, four non-commissioned officers, one health soldier, one sergeant major and even all fifty members of the Wild Goose Death Squad have uneven hat badges and even colorful socks, giving people a sense of haste to rush into battle with a temporary patchwork of miscellaneous cards.

In fact, the Wild Goose Death Squad hat badge is "messy and orderly".

Some of the cap badges represent the army's long and glorious history, dating back even to the ancient "Wars of the Roses" period.

Wars of the Roses (1455–1485 AD)

This is the subtlety of the plot of the film, indicating that the commando members are all coming from all over the place, and all of them are well-trained military leaders and fierce generals! It corresponds to their final tragic ending.

Today Xiaobian will explain to you, Colonel Faulkner, Captain Raven, Sergeant Major Sandy, Lieutenant Sean, Lieutenant Peter, Aunt Arthur, etc. What are these characters in the film?

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" >I: The hat emblem with the highest gold content in the film</h1>

Wild Goose Death Squad (1978) by Sgt. Tosh Donaldson

The last time I wrote the behind-the-scenes footage of "Wild Goose Daredevil", a friend here asked me, is there really a sequel to "Wild Goose Death Squad"?

I said yes, and it was called Wild Geese II (1985).

In the middle of the two "Wild Goose" in the upper and lower episodes, producer Eun Lloyd made a "Sea Wolf" and another called "Who Dares Wins" - "Who Dares Wins"!

This sentence is derived from Sergeant Donaldson's hat badge, which is called "Wings of Paratroopers of the Special Air Service Regiment"!

This indicates that Sergeant Donaldson's unit was the British Special Air Service (Special Air Service: S.A.S.

This was the world's first elite special forces force, established in 1941 during World War II on the North African Front, specializing in assassination and sabotage, and even Rommel, the "Desert Fox" at that time, was overwhelmed, and finally ordered the shooting of all S.A.S prisoners of war.

S.A.S. was founded twenty years earlier than the later American Navy SEALs, and SEALs had to call "Master Brother" when they met S.A.S.

S.A.S can be said to be the grandfather of various types of special forces now.

S.A.S. was founded in 1941 on the North African Front

The Navy SEALs have so far 2,200 members, while the full members of S.A.S. are only more than 900 before and after! It is almost comparable to the national treasure giant panda.

It is worth mentioning that Sergeant Donaldson's character, Ian Yule, is a member of the real S.A.S. and a real subordinate of Colonel Faulkner's prototype "Mad Mike", and the military hat he wears in the film is his own.

Mad Mike Hoare (1920?) -October 4, 2020)

Seventeenth-century Irish mercenaries, named Wild Goose, provided inspiration for the film's title.

In the 1960s, mercenary leader Mike Hall adopted the pattern of geese as a symbol of his mercenaries serving in the Congo. Thanks to the strong recommendation of his former subordinate Ian Jure, Mike Hall became the military technical adviser to the Wild Goose Death Squad.

The film does not explain why Donaldson hid his merits and fame and became a plumber, but "he has been a soldier for twelve years and has worked with the colonel three times!" This proud origin and seniority is in itself a reflection of Colonel Faulkner's status.

Donaldson played by Ian Yule (1933?) -December 3, 2020)

In real life, S.A.S acts low-key and tenaciously, and the most classic example is the famous "Hostage Rescue of the Iranian Embassy in London" in 1980 two years after the completion of "Wild Goose Death Squad" - "Operation Hunter".

The terrorists took twenty-six hostages, and after six days of negotiations with the British government, they failed with the killing of one hostage and the throwing of a hostage downstairs to death. At this time, the members of the S.A.S suddenly fell from the sky, broke through the window, quickly killed five of the six terrorists, and successfully rescued the remaining twenty-four hostages, and the whole operation took only eleven minutes.

Hostage incident at the Iranian Embassy in London (30 April - 5 May 1980)

Operation Hunter made S.A.S. famous and intimidating, when the world realized that Britain had such a special force.

"Wild Goose Daredevil" producer Eun Lloyd's "Who Dares to Do, Who Wins" is based on this incident, and some "Wild Goose" members participated in this performance.

The movie "Whoever Dares to Do It, WhoEver Wins" (aka "SAS Special Forces" was filmed in 1982)

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > II. Peter and the black child Jesse belong to the "Red Devil Parachute Regiment"</h1>

Lt. Pieter Coetzee (played by Hardy Kruger born April 12, 1928)

The Red Devil Parachute Regiment is part of the British Army and is known worldwide for its swift movement and stunt.

During the famous "Market Garden" operation during World War II, a Red Devil parachute regiment rose to fame, killing twenty-two German armored vehicles in one go at the Battle of Arnhem! Out of the limelight!

The movie "Distant Bridge" is about this Dutch Arnhem Bridge.

Oil painting "Arnhem Bridge"

The bridge was renamed the "John Foster Bridge" by the Dutch government in 1978 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John Foster of the British Red Devil Paratrooper Regiment.

The Red Devils are part of Lieutenant Colonel John Frost

Operation Market Garden was just a test of water, and the biggest achievement in the history of the "Red Devils" was the destruction of german nuclear reactor factories from the sky in the late world war II.

It's also fun to have Peter, the Red Devils lieutenant, played by German actor Hardy Kruger.

Hardy had just come down from the cast of The Bridge Far Away, and there was a scene in which he played Colonel Ludwig of the SS rushed to Modell with a captured Allied map and suggested that he surround the Red Devils, and Modell replied, "It's time to go to dinner." ”

Coming to the crew of "Wild Goose", Hardy transformed into the "Red Magician", and it is said that he himself did not share the same sky as Hitler.

Sgt. Jesse Link. Jesse Link (played by John Carney John Kani born November 20, 1942)

This parachute regiment is also a mysterious unit, and we can hardly see documentaries about it.

I've only seen the shadow of the hat badge in a Diana documentary before.

The young Prince William and Prince Harry each wore a "Red Devil Paratrooper" bud hat, not to grab or grab. PS: If the crown is one person and one crown, there is no need for brothers to fall on the wall.

Toys are toys, and it is not so easy to become a real "red devil".

Recruits often go through seven months of devilish training, and very few people end up staying.

In July 2014, the training process of the British Red Devil Parachute Regiment was first exposed, and the accompanying reporters arrived at the designated location and were surprised to find that the entire new battalion needed to accompany ambulances at all times, which was far from physical training than live ammunition exercises.

Of course, as a paratrooper training camp, high-altitude training is essential, and unlike "Wild Goose Death Squad", the actual training tower of the Red Devil Paratrooper is as high as nineteen meters, but it is not jumping down from the brothel window.

The trainer told reporters that he did not dare to walk on this, so what if he jumped down from the 243-meter-high Hercules transport plane?

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="94" > III. "The person who hit me has a concussion is not good" Which special forces is Zuke? </h1>

Sergeant Zucker McTaggart Sgt. Jock McTaggart

Zucker's hat badge is the size of a palm and is the most conspicuous.

To take a closer look, the pattern of this badge is like this—

The following line is "The Royal Scots", the Royal Scots Regiment.

The origins of this unit are very early, basically dating back to the Middle Ages.

Let's listen to Zucker's line when he came to the interview

Played by Ronald Fraser (April 11, 1930 – March 13, 1997)

"My name is Zucker, I'm 42 years old, I've been a sergeant in special forces for twelve years, and I've won heavyweight boxing in the regiment for six consecutive years. ”

This line is the original English "Black Watch" is said to be "special forces", which is mistranslated here.

Black Watch is supposed to be the "Royal Scots Black Guard Highlanders". Zucker's official military uniform was supposed to be a skirt.

Foreign military fan COS Royal Scots Black Guard Highlander Regiment soldier

This corps was thunderous in the Napoleonic period, and was on a par with the famous European legions of Prussian Flintlock Regiment, Skeleton Hussar Regiment, Russian Pavlov Grenadier regiment and other corps.

This unit remained distinguished and famous until the end of World War II.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135" > IV</h1>

Aunt Arthur (played by Kenneth Griffith, October 12, 1921 – June 25, 2006)

"Aunt" Arthur's snake cane cap badge indicates that he is from the "Royal Army Medical Corps".

This single snake cane cap emblem has not changed much since World War II, and the orthodox British people reject the first aid symbol of today's "double snake cane", believing that the single snake is the most formal.

Officer of the British Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II

This originated in an ancient Greek mythological story in which the owner of the serpent staff was the healing god Asclepius, who was the son of the sun god Apollo and the prototype for the golden Saint Seiya of Ophiuchus in the cartoon Saint Seiya.

Everyone will wonder why the "snake" has become a symbol of saving lives and helping the injured, for three reasons:

Snakes molt, symbolizing rebirth, restoration, rehabilitation, etc.;

Snake venom is between "medicine" and "poison", symbolizing moderation and proportion;

The snake symbolizes concentration.

All three points seem to be related to the medical industry. Based on this, many related organization logos are dominated by snake-like patterns.

By the way, the actor "Aunt" has either played a doctor or a nurse in his acting career, such as Mason, Rochester's brother-in-law in "Jane Eyre".

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" >V. Colonel Faulkner's unit dates back to the "era of the line infantry."</h1>

The 17th-19th century wars were basically "line tactics", that is, the two sides of the war stood in a neat row, and at the same time advanced to each other, with the flesh to block the bullets, knock down a row, and then make up for the rear row, and finally see which side survived the soldiers more of course is the winning side.

Others jokingly refer to this tactic as "queuing up and shooting tactics."

The standard weapon of this era was the flintlock gun, so many flintlock regiments were born in European countries during the same period.

The flintlock musket, born in France in 1547

This tactic is basically to support the brave and scare the cowardly, so the flintlock regiment symbolizes the fine tradition of the British army's bravery and courage and cherishing its reputation, even if the flintlock gun has long been eliminated, but the establishment is still retained, becoming an indelible name.

Colonel Faulkner was from the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the Royal Welsh Flintlock Regiment.

Colonel Faulkner (played by Richard Burton, November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984)

Colonel Faulkner's bronze cap emblem is a non-commissioned officer's version, shaped like a grenade with a small flame, with three feathers in the middle symbolizing the Prince of Wales.

Royal Welsh Flintlock Regiment Non-Commissioned Officer Edition Copper Cap Coat of Arms

His comrade-in-arms, Sergeant Major Sandy's hat emblem, is a silver version of roughly the same shape, and the flames are relatively larger. However, this hat emblem does not belong to the Flintlock Regiment, but is the Grenadier Guards, which belong to the Royal Forest Army.

Sergeant Major Sandy (played by Jack Watson May 14, 1915 – July 4, 1999)

Grenadier Guard Grenadier Guards cap insignia

If you talk about comrades-in-arms, compared to Colonel Faulkner, the sergeant major is closer to this man—

Queen Elizabeth took a photo while serving as a colonel in the Grenadiers of the Janissaries

There is a strange story in the history of Colonel Faulkner's unit, and we are familiar with the Christmas truce of World War I on December 25, 1914, which occurred between the Royal Welsh Flintlock Regiment of England and the German 134th Saxon Grenadier Regiment.

The incident occurred five months after the start of the First World War, when soldiers from both sides not only climbed out of the trenches to light cigarettes and toast each other, laughed and frolicked, but finally happily took a photo, which was published in the British "Daily Mirror" early the following year.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="183" >VI: Raven is from the Green Jacket Corps, a heroic unit of the British Army</h1>

Lieutenant Raven (played by Richard Harris 1 October 1930 – October 25, 2002)

I still haven't figured out why Raven's character is set to be highly myopic, because the "Green Jacket Corps" he belongs to can be said to be the grandfather of snipers all over the world.

If Raven hadn't worn large glasses with thick bottle bottoms, he could have done a sniper job and added some "Soldiers In the City" elements to the film.

"Royal Green Jacket Legion Royal Green Jackets", no one in infantry history can be less than this unit, this is the world's first officially formed sniper unit.

Everyone knows that the original uniform of the British army is basically red, which means that it is not afraid of death, come and fire at me, and even derive a phrase "thin red line" - a thin red line, roughly similar to our idiom "unity of purpose".

(Note: The original novel title of "Wild Goose Death Squad" is "Thin White Line", which means white racism).

It is said that Britain's thin red line cold weapon era can still be bull fork for a while, to the era of hot weapons a bit can not stand, and do not know where to find the steps, military uniforms to change the color of such a simple little thing entangled for more than a century. Finally, the birth of the rifle ushered in a grateful turning point.

After the birth of the Green Jacket Rifle Corps, a new problem arose, which was despised by its own friendly forces for sneaking around in the shadows all day long to shoot black guns.

In the end, the green jacket was killed by the enemy army, and it was also a white death to be killed by his own people. Sigh, there is a lack of a righteous and bright style, where is this called the master of benevolence and righteousness.

It wasn't until World War I that the Green Jacket Sniper was officially classified as an infantry sequence. Before that, the green jackets were basically broken and broken, and the scattered soldiers lacked food and clothing, and the sky was taken as the seat, almost the existence of cowboys in the Western United States.

They are a group of tragic warriors and leper heroes, which is closer to the character of Raven in "Wild Goose".

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="207" >VII: Lieutenant Sean is Prince William's master brother</h1>

Lieutenant Sean (played by Roger Moore October 14, 1927 – May 23, 2017)

A long time ago everyone at the wine table was arguing, and some people said that Sean's logo was the Royal Janissaries Dragoon Regiment.

I said that intuitively I felt that such a handsome young man should be a bearskin hat.

Poking at the door of Buckingham Palace is a beautiful ornament! I thought it was a joke, but in the end I guessed it!

Sean's cap badge means he's from the Irish Guards.

Attached to the Army, the Guard was established on 1 April 1900 on the orders of Queen Victoria. One of the five regiments under the Royal Guard.

Functioning as light infantry and honor guards, there is currently only one battalion headquarters size, and the slogan is Latin "Who can separate us?" ”

Prince William's current title is Colonel of the Irish Guard.

After the occupation of Paris during the Anglo-French War, the bearskin hats originally installed by the French army were unceremoniously borrowed by the British, so that the royal guard's silver-like wax gun head became the most miserable hardship in the world.

No matter whether it is autumn, winter, cold or hot, this top hat you have to cover all the time, cover out the prickly heat and want to scratch an itch to calculate that your combat effectiveness is not tenacious.

A clip from the 2014 film Paddington Bear

You don't have to say, in the 2016 Queen's 90th birthday parade, there was really a bearskin hat on the spot, very eye-catching ah.

Probably because he couldn't bear it, Shaun simply left the team and ran to learn to fly a plane, and then any plane would be covered by a bearskin hat.

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