Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964) was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign during World War I. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans), he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Essentially undefeated in the field, Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade British Empire soil during the War. His exploits in the campaign have been described by Edwin Palmer Hoyt "as the greatest single guerrilla operation in history, and the most successful."

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in The Hot War
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was the German pest in East Africa who stayed in the field a month after the First World War was all over everywhere else. Hank McCutcheon and Bill Staley discussed his campaign's similarity to the Russians' resistance at Petropavlovsk against the British and French in the 1850s. Soon after going over this trivia, the pilots set off on their mission to obliterate Petropavlovsk.