• 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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  • after Operation Overlord – notably Operation Bulbasket, Operation Houndsworth, Operation Loyton and Operation Wallace. Following these operations both...
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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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  • 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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    ISBN 978-1-888363-54-8 – via Google Books. McCue, Paul; Baker, Max (1990). SAS Operation Bulbasket: Behind the Lines in Occupied France, 1944. Barnsley: Pen and Sword...
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    Houndsworth, Bulbasket, Loyton, Kipling and Wallace-Hardy), Belgium, the Netherlands (Operation Pegasus), and eventually into Germany (Operation Archway and...
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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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  • 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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    Operations Wallace and Hardy I were two British Special Air Service operations during the Second World War that took place from 27 July to 19 September...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Operation Kipling was a British special forces operation that took place during the Second World War in German-occupied France between 13 August to 26...
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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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    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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    Amédée Maingard (category Special Operations Executive personnel)
    arrival of fifty-five men of 1st SAS Regiment for the ill-fated Operation Bulbasket shortly after D-Day. He continued his work until the liberation of...
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    Operation Loyton was the codename given to a Special Air Service (SAS) mission in the Vosges department of France during the Second World War. The mission...
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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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    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 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 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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  • During World War II, Operation Noah was a reconnaissance patrol by 41 Belgian members of the Special Air Service who operated in the Ardennes from 16...
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  • Operation Bigamy a.k.a. Operation Snowdrop was a raid during the Second World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942.This was done under the...
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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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  • Operation Cooney was the deployment of elements of the 4ème Bataillon d'Infanterie de l'Air - the 4th Free French Parachute Battalion (later renamed 2ème...
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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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    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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