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The Dambusters - 'Was it Worth it?'
By John Sweetman
C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle)
By Mike Curtis
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 39364" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Davidson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Basil Risbridger </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Special Force SOE </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>70332 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross,Bronze Star (US) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Italy 1944-45 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit General List</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 9.11.1914 Bristol (as Basil Risbridger)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>changed his surname when his father died and his mother remarried</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Kelly College,Tavistock,Devon</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SIS (Section D) October 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Hungary 1940-41</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief of SOE Yugoslav Section,Cairo late 1942-mid 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Yugoslavia August 1943-November 1944 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Liaison Officer with Italian Partisans,Liguria (1 Special Force) (Major - A/LtColonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>journalist postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author of books on Africa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Marion (3 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 9.7.2010</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/b-davidson.15420/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15420-d885bd6d75bc0824a0a36e6535c2c858.jpg?1591399425" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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