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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 ...
On 15 April 2007, G squadron of the SAS assaulted a house near Taji containing a suspected Sunni insurgent leader in the early hours, whilst inserting by helicopter two RAF Pumas collided, two SAS personnel and an RAF crewman were thrown from one of the Puma and crushed by it as it rolled onto its side, two died but one SAS soldier was saved ...
The SAS deployed about 300 members with A, B and D Squadrons as well as fifteen members from R Squadron the territorial 22 SAS squadron. [102] This was the largest SAS mobilisation since the Second World War. [102] There was conflict in the Regiment over whether to deploy A or G Squadron to the Gulf.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
International Squadron (1941) as Bill Torrence; Navy Blues (1941) as Jersey; Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941) as Mechanic (uncredited) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as 2nd Lt. Davis (uncredited) Steel Against the Sky (1941) as Joe (uncredited) Dangerously They Live (1941) as John; The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) (uncredited)
People who died in the decade 1950s. See also: Category:1950s births. 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; ... List of deaths in rock and roll (1950s) Ding Chao; George Dobson (rugby ...
John R. Countryman – American child actor known by the stage name "Johnny Russell" who served as an Air Force pilot and later as a career officer for the United States Foreign Service (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) Alexander Courage – Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning film composer; Clyde Cowan – Physicist and discoverer of the neutrino
Stirling also pioneered the use of small groups to escape detection. Finding it difficult to lead from the rear, Stirling often led from the front, his SAS units driving through enemy airfields in the Jeeps to shoot up aircraft and crew. [13] Members of the 'French Squadron SAS' (1ere Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes) in Tunisia.