SAS
Special Air Service Regiment (1941-1945)
SAS - Special Air Service Regiment (1941-1945) |
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HISTORY L Detachment SAS July 1941-28 September 1942 1 SAS 28 September 1942-1943 (A,B,C and D Sqdns) 2 SAS 1943-1945 Special Raiding Squadron (from 1 SAS) 1943 Special Boat Squadron (from D Sqdn 1 SAS) 1943-1945 S.A.S. Brigade 1944-1945 consisting of 1 SAS 2 SAS 3 SAS (French) 4 SAS (French) 5 SAS (Belgian) 6 SAS (US - never materialised) F Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom),R.A.C. 20 Liaison HQ (12 men) (Major O.Carey-Elwes) R.A.S.C. Air Despatch Group (3 officers and 154 other ranks including 15 men from R.A.O.C.) Pioneer Corps (1 officer and 23 other ranks) SAS Brigade Liaison Officer with 1 Airborne Corps HQ (Lt-Col.Collins) SAS Liaison duties with Special Forces HQ (4 officers)(Mission Etoile) note 5 French and 2 Belgian parachutists killed before formation of SAS units are included here as the French are commemorated on the SAS Memorial | ||||
| Roll Of Honour: 511 | Awards: 601 | Images: 1870 | Links: 5 | |
• Belgian SAS - Website of Belgian SAS 1944-45
• Blair Mayne - Website on Colonel Paddy Mayne by Stewart McClean of Newtonards
• French SAS - Website of David Portier remembering 3 and 4 SAS
• French SAS - French SAS website
• SAS Originals - Website created by Daniel Bright,nephew of Charlie Cattell,one of the SAS originals.
• Operation Pistol
• Operation Loyton
• Operation Begonia
• Operation Archway
• Operation Candytuft
• Operation Jonquil
• Operation Keystone
![2SAS: Bill Stirling and the forgotten SAS unit of World War II](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1472856732.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe KBE DSO MC FRS 20th Century Soldier, Politician, Statesman](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1844158810.jpg"])
![An Active Service: The Story of a Soldier's Life in the Grenadier Guards, SAS and SBS 1935-1958](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1874622485.jpg"])
![Anders Lassen, V.C., M.C., of the S.A.S.](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0450424928.jpg"])
By Mike Langley
![Born of the Desert: With the S.A.S. in North Africa](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1853674389.jpg"])
By Malcolm James
![Colonel Paddy](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_fileB0000CO6SE.jpg"])
By Patrick Marrinan
![Daggers Drawn: Real Heroes of the SAS and SBS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0750930586.jpg"])
By Mike Morgan
![David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1472134591.jpg"])
![Drums of Memory: The Autobiography of Sir Stephen Hastings MC](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0850528089.jpg"])
By Stephen Hastings
![Fire from the Forest: The SAS Brigade in France, 1944](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0304363367.jpg"])
By Roger Ford
![General Salutes a Soldier](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0709027737.jpg"])
By J.V. Byrne
![Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1841195669.jpg"])
By Lorna Almonds Windmill
![Going to the Wars](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_fileB07PMT71B4.jpg"])
By John Verney
![Guardsman and Commando: The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file184415811X.jpg"])
By David Feebery
![He Who Dared and Died: The Life and Death of a SAS Original, Sergeant Chris O'Dowd, MM](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848845413.jpg"])
![He Who Dares: Recollections of Service in the SAS, SBS and MI5](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0850526434.jpg"])
By David Sutherland
![Honour to the Airborne: Pt. 2](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0948529016.jpg"])
By David Buxton
![In Action with the SAS: A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1844152863.jpg"])
![Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0850527430.jpg"])
By John Lewes
![No Ordinary Life - SAS Rogue Heroes: : The True Story Of Founding SAS Member Horace Stokes](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1784070424.jpg"])
![One of the Originals: Story of a Founder Member of the S.A.S.](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0330314645.jpg"])
By Johnny Cooper
![Operation Bulbasket](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848841930.jpg"])
By Paul McCue
![Operation Tombola](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0853687498.jpg"])
By Roy Farran
![Paddy Mayne](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0750939435.jpg"])
By Hamish Ross
![Parachute Padre](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_fileB0000CHW58.jpg"])
By McLuskey J. Fraser
![Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1840187239.jpg"])
By Martin Dillon & Roy Bradford
![SAS - Men in the Making: An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1473845602.jpg"])
By Peter Davis M.C.
![SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1529413788.jpg"])
![SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1529413826.jpg"])
![SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1786483149.jpg"])
![SAS Great Escapes](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1787457528X.jpg"])
By Damien Lewis
![SAS Great Escapes 2: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1529429382.jpg"])
![SAS Great Escapes Three](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1529429439.jpg"])
By Damien Lewis
![SAS in Tuscany 1943-45](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848844468.jpg"])
By Brian Lett
![SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1787475131.jpg"])
![SAS Operation Galia](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0955623995.jpg"])
By Robert Hann
![SAS Operation Pistol: Raindrops in Alsace](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file139903801X.jpg"])
By Graham Alcock
![SAS Trooper: Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy-Occupied France and Italy](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848843992.jpg"])
![SAS with the Maquis](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1853672858.jpg"])
By Ian Wellsted
![SAS: Rogue Heroes - The Authorized Wartime History](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0241186625.jpg"])
By Ben MacIntyre
![SAS: The History of the Special Raiding Squadron "Paddy's Men"](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1862272875.jpg"])
By Stuart McLean
![Special Boat Squadron](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1718075863.jpg"])
By Barrie Pitt
![Special Forces Commander: The Life and Wars of Peter Wand-Tetley MC Commando, SAS, SOE and Paratrooper](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848846738.jpg"])
![Special Ops Heroes](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1472223969.jpg"])
By Michael Ashcroft
![Stirling Work: The True Story of the Original SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_fileB00G3KAK2O.jpg"])
By Steve Stone
![Stirling's Desert Triumph - the SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids 1942](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1472807634.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the Original SAS](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0304367060.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![Tanky Challenor: SAS and the Met](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0850521246.jpg"])
By Harold Challenor
![The Imperial War Museums' Book of War Behind Enemy Lines](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1526724073.jpg"])
By Julian Thompson
![The Last Gentleman of the SAS: A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1780576676.jpg"])
![The Nazi Hunters](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1784293873.jpg"])
By Damien Lewis
![The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS: In Their Own Words](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0091901820.jpg"])
![The Phantom Major: The Story of David Stirling and the SAS Regiment](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1848843860.jpg"])
By Virginia Cowles
![The SAS and LRDG Roll of Honour 1941-47](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1526203324.jpg"])
By Ex-Lance Corporal X QGM
![The SAS at War: 1941-1945](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0141390107.jpg"])
By Anthony Kemp
![The SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file152676962X.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![The SAS in Occupied France: 2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1526769581.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History (General Military)](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file184908646X.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![The SBS in World War II: An Illustrated History](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1782001891.jpg"])
By Gavin Mortimer
![The Scourge of Soho: The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1783464011.jpg"])
![The Secret Hunters](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0948397357.jpg"])
By Anthony Kemp
![The Special Air Service](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0722189109.jpg"])
By Philip Warner
![These Men Are Dangerous: The S.A.S. at War](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0304351687.jpg"])
By Derek Harrison
![Those Who Dared: Gallantry Awards to the British SAS and Attached SBS Units 1941-1946](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file1870192540.jpg"])
![When the Grass Stops Growing: A Memoir of the Second World War](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0850525764.jpg"])
By Sir Carol Mather
![Winged Dagger: Adventures on Special Service](["https:\/\/www.specialforcesroh.com\/store\/tb_file0304350842.jpg"])
By Ron Farran
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