Posted on 09/25/2011 3:19:58 AM PDT by the scotsman
'A secret World War II diary of the British special forces unit, the SAS, has been kept hidden since it was created in 1946. Now it's being published for the first time to mark the 70th anniversary of the regiment. The BBC has exclusive access to the remarkable piece of history.
It was 1946; World War II was over and so was the Special Air Service, better known as the SAS.
Set up in 1941 by David Stirling, a lieutenant in the Scots Guards at the time, it had changed the way wars were fought, dispensing with standard military tactics and making up its own. But in the new post-war world those in charge no longer saw a need for the regiment. It had been disbanded and there were no plans to revive it.
But for one former SAS soldier it wasn't over. Determined that the regiment's story wouldn't fade away and become a footnote in history, he made it his job to find and preserve whatever documents and photographs he could before they were lost forever. It was his final SAS mission.
As it turned out the elite force's expertise was still needed and it was resurrected just a year later in 1947. And by then the soldier's personal mission had resulted in something unique - a diary of the SAS in WWII.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Worcestershire sauce.
Colonel Blimp was deeply saddened.
‘With’ probably, he most likely would have been OSS (Sterling Hayden being the most famous OSS agent in Yugoslavia). The British used the SOE.
The SAS were used in that area, both mainland and the few Yugoslav islands, but it was the SOE and OSS who were the main allied support.
DeNiro never would have known.
SAS Ping
Yes, it was the generation that gave us the failed modern welfare state.
Over there.
Not over here.
Even worse over there.
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