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    The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range...
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    the Lovat Scouts in World War One, the Long Range Desert Group and the Special Air Service in the Western Desert Campaign and North West Europe, similar...
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    Mike Sadler (category Long Range Desert Group personnel)
    of the Special Air Service and one of the last survivors of the Long Range Desert Group (survived by Jack Mann who also served in the LRDG). Willis Michael...
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    Western Desert Campaign. The deep desert saw operations by the Italian Auto-Saharan Companies, in combat with the Allied Long Range Desert Group (LRDG)...
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  • starting with Major Ralph Alger Bagnold with his 1940 Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in the Western Desert. The LRDG carried out operations of reconnaissance...
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    States) Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicle – (United States) Long Range Desert Group ULTRA AP – (United States) Willys FAMAE Corvo – (Chile) VLEGA Gaucho/Chivunk...
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    Guy Prendergast (British Army officer) (category Long Range Desert Group personnel)
    was the commanding officer of the Long Range Desert Group from 1941 to 1943. Guy Lenox Prendergast was one of a group of British Saharan explorers in the...
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  • contact with the enemy The original name for the Long Range Desert Group, a British World War II unit Long Range Patrol (film), a 2013 Finnish film This disambiguation...
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    Capture of Kufra (category Western Desert campaign)
    established in 1934. With some early assistance from the British Long Range Desert Group, Kufra was besieged from 31 January to 1 March 1941 by Free French...
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  • film, which was directed by Guy Green, is about a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during the North African Campaign in the Second World War...
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    for short- and medium-range communications, it was later used by the Long Range Desert Group in Libya and Tunisia for long-range communications while deep...
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    War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or 'PPA' (Popski's Private...
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    highly successful British reconnaissance and raiding force, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). The AS.42 was a 4x2 unarmored vehicle with a boat hull based...
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    The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ ; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada...
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    10 December 1942 as an 8th Army Special Forces unit. After the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Air Service (SAS), PPA was the last and...
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    such forces as the Long Range Desert Group. This period was also marked by the search for Zerzura, a mythical oasis in the deep desert. During the Second...
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  • command of Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling and supported by the Long Range Desert Group. The plan was to destroy the harbour and storage facilities at...
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  • aircraft purchased by the British Army in Egypt and used by the Long Range Desert Group. Boeing AH-64E Apache AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat Eurocopter AS365...
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    Ralph Bagnold (category Long Range Desert Group personnel)
    behind-the-lines reconnaissance, espionage and raiding unit the "Long Range Desert Group", serving as its first commanding officer in the North Africa campaign...
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    captured. Its second mission was a major success. Transported by the Long Range Desert Group, it attacked three airfields in Libya, destroying 60 aircraft without...
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  • fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) that endeavour to destroy the fuel...
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    jerrycans were captured, sufficient to equip some units such as the Long Range Desert Group. British companies such as Briggs Motor Bodies, Vauxhall Motors...
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    Barracudas in anti piracy patrols off Hong Kong in October 1945. The Long Range Desert Group was supplied with large numbers of the Vickers G.O. for use on...
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  • David Lloyd Owen (category Long Range Desert Group personnel)
    soldier and writer. During the Second World War he commanded the Long Range Desert Group. Born in Hampton, in the county of Middlesex, England, on 10 October...
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  • 30s with other Europeans such as Ralph Bagnold (founder of the Long Range Desert Group) and Patrick Clayton who were now working for the British Middle...
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  • by and performed some missions with, but was not a part of, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). With the end of the Battle of the Mareth Line on 29 March...
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    It traces its origins to the Second World War and the famous Long Range Desert Group that New Zealanders served with. The New Zealand Government states...
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    Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0752476650. Kennedy Smith, W.B. (1945). Long Range Desert Group. London: Collins. pp. 50–51. Mitchell, Raymond (2001). Commando...
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  • Pat Clayton (category Long Range Desert Group personnel)
    knowledge of the Western Desert. He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and served in the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). Clayton was...
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    biggest storms to hit the region. Escaping only with the help of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) – who were designated to pick up the unit after the attack...
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