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  2. 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 ...

  3. Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    The Feather Men a novel by Sir Ranulph Fiennes - claimed by the author to be a partly non-fictional story involving the SAS Killer Elite - film based on The Feathermen , about a mercenary hired to kill SAS troopers (fictional story surrounding real events and people from SAS history).

  4. David Stirling - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS). Under his leadership, the SAS carried out hit-and-run raids behind the Axis lines of the North African campaign.

  5. SAS: Rogue Heroes - Wikipedia

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    SAS: Rogue Heroes (titled Rogue Heroes in the United States) is a 2022 British historical drama television series created by Steven Knight that premiered on BBC One on 30 October 2022. The first series depicts the origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II .

  6. Bravo Two Zero - Wikipedia

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    Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991. According to Chris Ryan's account, the patrol was given the task of gathering intelligence, finding a good lying-up position (LUP), setting up an observation post (OP), and monitoring enemy movements, especially Scud missile launchers [1 ...

  7. Bill Stirling (British Army officer) - Wikipedia

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    Initially based in Tunisia, he led the 2 SAS during its operations in Sicily and during the Italian Campaign. [16] Stirling himself never went on an SAS raid. [3] In early 1944, 1 SAS and 2 SAS were recalled to the United Kingdom, from whence they launched raids on Nazi-occupied Europe in the run up to the Allied invasion of Normandy. [5]

  8. Andy McNab - Wikipedia

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    Asher's conclusion was that the book's claim to be "the true story of an SAS patrol in action" was a fraud. [17] McNab now lives in New York City with his fifth wife. [2] He is a director of military service recruitment, mentoring and Foundation organisation, ForceSelect. [20] [vague]

  9. List of SAS operations - Wikipedia

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    The SAS were tasked with assaulting 2 of the dwellings whilst Delta Force assaulted another 2 dwellings; both of Delta's and one of the SAS's target buildings were cleared without incident, but as the SAS assaulted their final dwelling the assault team were wounded by a hail of fire and an RPG-7 rocket, they returned fire and withdrew from the ...