03-02-2008, 06:29 PM
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Operation Bulbasket, which was launched on June 6, 1944. the objectives of the operation were for the 56 men of b sqd. 1st sas to slow down German reinforcements to Normandy, assist the French resistance (maquis), and provide intelligence for bombing runs. They were tragically betrayed by a german agent and surrounded by 500 Germans of an SS battalion. something like 34 members of b sqd., were captured and later executed by the SS. They were shot with sten guns to make their deaths look like a friendly-fire incident or worse. The officer responsible would later be sentenced to death for this crime during the Nuremberg trials.
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__________________ Spidge, 
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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