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The SAS secret hidden since World War II
BBC News ^ | 25th September 2011 | Denise Winterman

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: sas
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To: the scotsman

Worcestershire sauce.


21 posted on 09/25/2011 6:19:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: the scotsman

Colonel Blimp was deeply saddened.


22 posted on 09/25/2011 6:42:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dog breath

‘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.


23 posted on 09/25/2011 6:58:31 AM PDT by the scotsman (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'll never understand why he didn't call DeNiro's bluff. I would have just said "White. White clapboard siding with a blue tile roof."

DeNiro never would have known.

24 posted on 09/25/2011 8:11:39 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: the scotsman

SAS Ping


25 posted on 09/25/2011 9:02:04 AM PDT by Chainmail
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
They were the Greatest Generation.

Yes, it was the generation that gave us the failed modern welfare state.

26 posted on 09/25/2011 1:38:38 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Over there.
Not over here.


27 posted on 09/25/2011 3:05:15 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Even worse over there.


28 posted on 09/25/2011 6:37:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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