SAS Trooper: Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy-Occupied France and Italy

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Len successfully campaigned for a memorial to the villagers which was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum. He was part of the Phantom Signals team, who hid in the forest at Moussey in France with the SAS, and were protected by the villagers. Live TV pictures were broadcast to millions of people across the world, who watched as the SAS went in through the front balcony. He's the best-selling author of The SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea.

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John Henry "Brummie" Stokes was born in 1945 in the mining village of Hamstead, just outside Birmingham.Listen to interviews, by BBC Hereford & Worcester's Nicola Goodwin, with former members of the Special Air Service, and their wives, about life in this elite regiment, and their base at Credenhill in Hereford: He applied for service with the Special Air Service Regiment in 1959 and set a record as the youngest person ever to pass selection at the age of 18. They then threatened to kill the rest of the hostages and blow up the embassy if their demands were not met, and so the call was made to send in the SAS.

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In 2007 some of the former garrison houses were sold off but the homes are still mainly occupied by current and former servicemen and women and their families. He's actively campaigned for more recognition of the work done by the men of the SAS in past conflicts.The regiment moved to Bradbury Lines, Putson in Hereford in 1960, renaming it after their founder, Lieutenant-Colonel David Stirling in 1984. Rusty is now an author, and has told the story of the siege and its dramatic end in his book "Go, Go, Go!" Rusty Firmin was third in command of the troops that stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, killing five terrorist gunmen, and rescuing 19 hostages. The present SAS is made up of four fighting squadrons: Each is sub-divided into four troops specialising in air, boat, mobility and mountain tactics. of the men and boys from the local area were killed by the Germans, after they refused to betray them.