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Fitzroy Maclean

23rd April 2025 Going Postal 0

When you hear the name Fitzroy Maclean, what comes to mind? For many, it’s his role as a founding member of the SAS, those daring desert raiders of World War II. Others might recall his [more…]

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Postcard From Narvik, Part One

5th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Lying just above the 68th parallel makes the Norwegian port of Narvik more northern than Iceland. The Nordland municipality’s 20,000 inhabitants also live their lives 860 miles north of Oslo, 870 miles from Stockholm in [more…]

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The connection between the Commandos, the US Rangers and the SAS

1st October 2020 well_chuffed 0

Apart from the fact that they are all some kind of special forces, the real connection is that they were all given their names by Dudley Clarke who finished the war as a Brigadier. Who [more…]

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