During World War II, Operation Gaff was a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos, who parachuted into German-occupied France on 18 July 1944, with the aim of killing or kidnapping German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. After SAS Lieutenant-Colonel William Fraser was told the location of Rommel's headquarters, a chateau home of the Dukes de La Rochefoucauld in the village of La Roche-Guyon, Brigadier R.W. McLeod assigned six specially-trained assassins led by French SAS Captain Jack William Raymond Lee.