A retired mid Wales farmer recalls how a 1940 operation into occupied Europe led to the formation of the Commandos - and later special forces like the SAS.

Punta dei Malati - 3 Commando Bridge. July 14th/15th 1943. In WW2, bridges played an important part :- Kwai, ... The British and Commonwealth 8th Army and the US 7th Army, ...

The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit — but whose story has gone untold until now.

Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss (top row, second and third from left) with ­other members of the group that abducted the German general Heinrich Kreipe, Crete, April 1944.

The UK, which has taken in several hundred Afghans, is considering setting up a special-operations unit of former Afghan commandos in the British Army. It wouldn't be the first time the British ...

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive ... Commando by grateful. You are browsing in: Archive List > British Army. ... Hi my father also joined the RN commandos from what we no he was another one from ...