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If you read this C, I direct your attention to my comments of Operation Champion.

Paul, in Saudi

Paul

Thank you, your comments on Champion which weren’t seen as this site appears to have had some problems?

Anyway, I would say there is no question of ‘wrong’ or ‘right’, Operation Champion remains a question for us we can’t answer. At some stage when a member is next at the PRO we’ll try and examine a file on it.

We mentioned previously the SOG conducting amphibious operations all along the Arakan. We believe they alone conducted some 170 operations there, but please don’t ask us to name them, assuming they all had recorded operational names?

In respect of Operation Clawhammer for example, we cannot be specific at the moment. We believe it could have been similar to Biting as there were Knickebein and X-Gerat devises there? There again, any such raid may have been the province of the paratroops, SOE, SIS or perhaps the Navy, in which case there is unlikely to be an reference to the Commandos. Until we can find out, this too remains open.

Regards CVA

Dear C- OK, Operation Champion is gone. Now let's look into CLAWHAMMER!

Paul, in Saudi

In the list of operations section at the end, suggest removing the raids conducted by the SAS, and the non SAS raids in the duplicate section on the SAS page. Or do people feel there is any merit in this duplication? CVA]

Good concise article but seems to be missing pictures: For starters has anyone got a pic of the badge? Wiki-Ed 14:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures and References

This would make a good featured article if we could find three references and a couple more pictures.


I've got access to most pictures, badges etc. that can be found. Can provide pictures of the Fairbairn/Sykes fighting knife, the badge, the beret, a lot of pictures from operations etc. I'll also try to rip a video from the operation in Walcheren (which I'm surprised isn't mentioned with a single word in the article). Regards from mastertigurius

[edit] Will help out a lot on this one

I've noticed quite a lot of information missing from the Commando wiki. My father is a renown expert on the Norwegian commandos (and personally knows several of them), in addition to having vast knowledge about operations, techniques, equipment and structure. Will notify him of this article, so that it can become as complete as possible.

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