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    The Commandos, also known as the British Commandos, were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from Winston Churchill, for...
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  • "Beef Encounter: Schwarzenegger's Brutal 'Commando'". Archived 2019-12-20 at the Wayback Machine The Washington Post. E3. Arnold Schwarzenegger Gene Siskel...
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    Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one...
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  • special-purpose infantry units, such as the Royal Marine Commandos, found on the list of commando units, and also paratrooper units found on the list of...
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    British Commandos 1940–46. London: Osprey Publishing. pp. 37–49. ISBN 1-84176-986-X. "Les fusiliers marins et les commandos". Ministère de la Défense...
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    administrative specialists Escadron de formation des commandos de l'air (French: Escadron de formation des commandos de l'air) (EFCA) at Orange-Caritat Air...
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    overfly deep jungle terrain where ground transport was impracticable. C-46 Commandos also went back to war. A dozen surplus C-46's were purchased in the United...
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    organise commando units of their own; 6,000 men volunteered, forming nine commandos. In 1943 the Royal Naval Commandos and the Royal Air Force Commandos were...
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    Maryland Commandos. In 1990, they played their home games at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia, and returned to being called the Washington Commandos. The...
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    championship). Indoor teams to have played in Washington include the Washington Commandos and the Washington Valor (which folded two months before the Defenders'...
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    St Nazaire Raid (category World War II British Commando raids)
    virtually all the small craft intended to transport the commandos back to England. The commandos fought their way through the town to escape overland but...
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    had been held, referred to de Gaulle as "an apprentice dictator", a view backed by a number of leading Frenchmen in Washington, including Jean Monnet, who...
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    had to acknowledge that de Gaulle had won the struggle for leadership of Free France. De Gaulle's relations with Washington were even more strained....
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    14,399.6 ft (4,389 m), it is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington, the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United...
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    The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a Iris pseudacorus (in...
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    2012. Quade, Alex (October 27, 2011). "Commando monument near ground zero unveiled on Veterans Day". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on...
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  • List of paratrooper forces (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    National Commando Training Center / 1st Shock Regiment Navy Navy Commandos (Commandos Marine) Commando de Montfort [fr] Commando Hubert Commando Jaubert [fr]...
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    22 April 1997, in a raid by Peruvian Armed Forces commandos, during which one hostage, two commandos, and all the MRTA militants were killed. The operation...
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    Alfred Jodl (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    political commissars were to be shot) and the Commando Order of 28 October 1942 (in which Allied commandos, including properly uniformed soldiers as well...
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  • from the original on 12 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016. "US sending commandos, combat aircraft to Philippines". AP. Archived from the original on 1...
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    parties and support operations of the Commandos Marine. The Commandos Marine (Naval Commandos) are a seven company Commando formation whose roots can be traced...
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    The Cadillac Gage Commando, frequently denoted as the M706 in U.S. military service, is an American armored car designed to be amphibious. It was engineered...
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    Shayetet 13 commandos infiltrated Egyptian ports numerous times, sinking five Egyptian naval vessels and heavily damaging another. Two commandos went missing...
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    hour, all of the commandos had assembled at the evacuation point and were picked up by the helicopters. After a headcount, the commandos and the command...
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    necessary. Instead of landing right on Pembroke, the commandos would initially take a beach nearby. The commandos left Santa Fe at 1:40 p.m. and from the beach...
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  • conflict, Blahyi and his men, a group of soldiers known as the Naked Base Commandos, fought without clothing and perpetrated numerous atrocities, including...
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  • organization was less successful. In 1951 SDECE created the Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés para-military organization in Vietnam, part of the...
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    of the First Earth Battalion would be sworn to uphold a credo of "high commandos and guerrilla gurus": I have the capacity and therefore the duty to contribute...
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    Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit. Oxford University Press. pp. 259–263. ISBN 978-0199782901. Citation needed "La Libération de Paris...
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    space force ground troops (Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air) Paratroopers/Special forces (Commando parachutiste de l'air) Territorial Air Defence A Rafale...
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