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Old 06-12-2004, 12:23 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I do wonder if the modern 22 SAS regiment is numbered in tribute to these 22 survivors.


It was part of a deception, it waqs to make the germans beleive that there were 21 other battalions!


Nice one. Actually, the wartime SAS regiments started with 1SAS, 2SAS, not sure if there was a third.
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actully the original unit was called "L detachment Special Air Service" The Special Air Service title itself was an example of deception by the british Army!

H.Q. S.A.S. Brigade
(plus F Squadron Phantom)
ist S.A.S. Regiment 2nd S.A.S. Regiment
3rd S.A.S. (French) Regiment 4th (French) Regiment
1st Belgian (Independent) Squadron

Cowles, Virginia., The Phantom Major , Guild, London, 1983 P307
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