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  2. List of former Special Air Service personnel - Wikipedia

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    This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA). Michael Asher – author, historian and desert explorer; Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War; Julian Brazier TD – MP for Canterbury; Charles "Nish" Bruce QGM – freefall expert; Charles R. Burton ...

  3. List of SAS operations - Wikipedia

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    Seizure of H-2 and H-3 Air Bases, 18 and 25 March 2003, after infiltrating Iraq at full strength, a combined force consisting of B and D squadron of British Special Air Service and 1 squadron of Australian Special Air Service Regiment set up observation posts around H-2 and H-3 air base and called in airstrikes that defeated the Iraqi defenders ...

  4. Special Air Service Troops - Wikipedia

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    The Special Air Service Troops was a airborne commando forces brigade sized formation of the Special Air Service (SAS), which was founded on 7 January 1944 in the United Kingdom during the European theatre of World War II. The formation was also known as the SAS Brigade. The brigade was a multi-national force of British, French, and Belgian units.

  5. Joseph Beyrle - Wikipedia

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    Joseph R. Beyrle (pron. BYE-er-lee) (Russian: Джозеф Вильямович Байерли; romanized: Dzhozef Vilyamovich Bayyerli; August 25, 1923 – December 12, 2004) is the only known American soldier to have served in combat with both the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army in World War II.

  6. Operation Bulbasket - Wikipedia

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    Operation Bulbasket was an operation by 'B' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service (SAS), behind the German lines in German occupied France, between June and August 1944.The operation was located to the east of Poitiers in the Vienne department of south west France; its objective was to block the Paris to Bordeaux railway line near Poitiers and to hamper German reinforcements heading towards the ...

  7. Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    The Special Air Service was a unit of the British Army during the Second World War that was formed in July 1941 by David Stirling and originally called "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade – the "L" designation and Air Service name being a tie-in to a British disinformation campaign, trying to deceive the Axis into thinking there was a ...

  8. History of the Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    SAS patrol in North Africa during the Second World War in SAS jeeps. The Special Air Service began life in July 1941, during the Second World War, from an unorthodox idea and plan by Lieutenant David Stirling (of the Scots Guards) who was serving with No. 8 (Guards) Commando. His idea was for small teams of parachute-trained soldiers to operate ...

  9. Operations Wallace and Hardy - Wikipedia

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    Summary and Analysis of Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. Open Road Media. ISBN 9781504044950. Mortimer, Gavin (2015). The SAS in World War II. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472808776. Shortt, James; McBride, Angus (1981). The Special Air Service ...