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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
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.
The Special Air Service began life in July 1941, the brainchild of Lieutenant David Stirling of No. 8 (Guards) Commando.His idea was for small teams of parachute trained soldiers to operate behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft and attack their supply and reinforcement routes.
Oxnard (/ ˈ ɒ k s n ɑːr d / ⓘ) is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California, United States.On California's Central Coast, it is the most populous city in Ventura County and the 22nd-most-populous city in California.
The Santa Barbara Pastoral Region is a division of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the Roman Catholic Church.It covers Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in California, an area with a population in excess of 1.2 million.
A privately preserved Douglas DC-3 wearing SAS' late 1940s-style markings. The airline was founded on 1 August 1946, when Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB (an airline owned by the Swedish Wallenberg family), Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Det Norske Luftfartselskap AS (the flag carriers of Denmark and Norway) formed a partnership to handle the combined air traffic of the three ...
San Antonio Shoemakers (SAS) is an American shoe manufacturer based in San Antonio, Texas.The company specializes in handcrafted men's and women's shoes. They are a family-owned company which manufactures their shoes in Texas.
Henry Thomas Oxnard was born to Adeline (née Brown) and Thomas A. Oxnard. He had three brothers, Robert, Benjamin A. and James G. [citation needed] In 1860, Oxnard's French-born father sold his sugar cane plantations and refinery in Louisiana, and by doing so was able to escape the business risks of the American Civil War by returning to his native France where Henry was born in Marseilles ...