Operation Bulbasket was an operation by 'B' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service (SAS), behind the German lines in German occupied France, between June and...
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p.39 Thompson, p.7 Shortt & McBride, p.15 Shott & McBride, p.16 "Operation Bulbasket". Royal British Legion. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011...
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British SAS prisoner-of-war, Lieutenant Tomos Stephens, taking part in Operation Bulbasket, and seven local French resistance fighters. Although it was not...
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dropped to Morbihan (Brittany). Operation Bulbasket, 1st SAS mission, although partly successful operation 6 June 1944. Operation Cooney, 8 June 1944, 18 teams...
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number of operations in France, to support the Allied advance, notably Operation Bulbasket, Operation Houndsworth, Operation Loyton and Operation Wallace...
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after Operation Overlord – notably Operation Bulbasket, Operation Houndsworth, Operation Loyton and Operation Wallace. Following these operations both...
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Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...
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and Paris. At the same time, 56 men of 1st SAS also took part in Operation Bulbasket in the Poitiers area. They did have some success before being betrayed...
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Houndsworth, Bulbasket, Loyton and Wallace-Hardy), Belgium, the Netherlands (Operation Pegasus), and eventually into Germany (Operation Archway and Operation Howard)...
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in the campaign in France in late 1944, notably in Operation Houndsworth and Operation Bulbasket. From 1942, the Operational Patrols of the Auxiliary...
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Lieutenant Tomos Stephens, an SAS soldier who was taken prisoner during Operation Bulbasket in World War II, then beaten to death by a German officer. Llanybri...
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Waffen-SS (section Arnhem and Operation Market Garden)
of 34 captured allied servicemen ordered by Josef Kieffer during Operation Bulbasket in 1944, the Houtman affair, or murders perpetrated by Heinrich Boere...
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Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised operations by the British Special Air Service...
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directed by B Squadron, 1st Special Air Service (SAS) and was codenamed Operation Bulbasket. After its advance elements crossed the Loire River on 13 June, the...
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landings, 34 SAS soldiers and a USAAF pilot were captured during Operation Bulbasket and executed. Most were shot, but three were killed by lethal injection...
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of the division was involved in counterinsurgency action against Operation Bulbasket in the Vienne Department.[citation needed] In early September, the...
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Chant, p.317 Peters, p.10 Peters, p.15 Peters, p.41 Bowman, p.144 "Operation Bulbasket". Royal British Legion. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011...
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Special Air Service Regiment, executed by enemy forces during SAS/SOE Operation Bulbasket F N Robertson, flight sergeant, No 261 Sqn, Hurricane fighter ace...
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Operation Bodyguard was the code name for a World War II deception strategy employed by the Allied states before the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe...
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Operation Aquatint was the codename for a failed raid by British Commandos on the coast of occupied France during the Second World War. The raid was undertaken...
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Operation Roast was a military operation undertaken by British Commandos, at Comacchio lagoon in north-east Italy, during the Spring 1945 offensive in...
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Ardennes to arm local resistance and reinforce SAS forces Bulbasket (1944) — SAS operation to prevent German reinforcements moving from southern France...
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Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers...
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Service (SAS). In July 1944, he was parachuted into France as part of Operation Bulbasket. He returned to the UK to read Natural Sciences at Clare College...
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take-off, but managed to successfully land. Weaver took part in Operation Bulbasket in German-occupied France in June–July 1944, landing near to Parthenay...
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49°25′48″N 2°21′54″W / 49.430°N 2.365°W / 49.430; -2.365 Operation Basalt was a small British raid conducted during World War II on Sark during the...
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Normandy landings (redirect from Operation Neptune)
landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second...
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Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne...
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Operation Fortitude was a military deception operation by the Allied nations as part of Operation Bodyguard, an overall deception strategy during the...
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Operation Zeppelin (along with its follow up subsidiaries, Vendetta and Turpitude) was a major military deception operation run by the British during...
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