List of SAS operations
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The following is a list of known Special Air Service (SAS) operations.
- Archway March 1945, reconnaissance in support of the crossing of the Rhine.
- Amherst In the night of 7th April 1945, more than 700 Free French SAS of the 3rd and 4th SAS were dropped in Holland between Hoogeveen and Groningen.
- Barras September 2000, rescue of 6 captured Royal Irish Rangers in Sierra Leone
- Baobab January 1944, raid on rail targets serving Anzio, Italy.
- Begonia/Jonquil October 1943, rescue of POWs in Italy.
- Bravo One Zero January 1991, Iraq
- Bravo Two Zero January 1991, Iraq
- Bravo Three Zero January 1991, Iraq
- Candytuft October 1943 raid on railroad targets in Italy.
- Canuck January 1945 operation in Northern Italy.
- Chestnut July 1943 raids supporting Sicily invasion.
- Claret June 1964 series of patrols into Indonesia.
- Cold Comfort/Zombie February 1945 failed SAS raid on railroad targets near Verona.
- Colossus February 1941 first airborne raid, raid on Italian aqueduct, origin of the term 'SAS' (but not the organisation).
- Condor May 2002 operation in Afghanistan.
- Cooney 8th June 1944, 18 teams of the 4th SAS Battalion (Free French) dropped to Britanny to break communications ways.
- Daffodil August 1942 raid on Tobruk
- Defoe July 1944, patrols in Normandy.
- Dingson 6th June 1944, 4th SAS Battalion (Free French) dropped to Morbihan (Britanny)
- Driftwood 1944, raid of railroad targets in Italy
- Dunhill August 1944, raid in support of the breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
- Flavius March 1988, killing of unarmed IRA bombers in Gibraltar.
- Gaff July 1944, attempt to kill Erwin Rommel.
- Hyacinth August 1942, used the LRDG to carry out a raid on Barce
- Keyhole 1982, operations on South Georgia Island.
- Keystone April 1945, operation near Ijsselmeer.
- Loyton August 1944, operations near the Belford Gap.
- Narcissus July 1943, capture of lighthouse in Sicily.
- Nelson Planned June 1944, operation in the Orleans Gap.
- Newton August 1944, attacks on German rear areas.
- Nimrod April 1980, televised rescue of hostages in the Iranian embassy in London.
- Noah August 1944, attack on retreating Germans in Belgium.
- Samwest 6th June 1944, 4th SAS Battalion dropped in Côtes-du-Nord (Britanny)
- Savannah March 1941, attempt to kill German pilots and aircrew by pre-SAS French paratroops.
- Snowdrop September 1942, raid on Benghazi
- Tombola March 1945, major operation around Bologna
- Trent November 2001 attack on an Al Qaeda opium plant [citation needed] and command centre.
- Tulip July 1942, attempt to recapture Jalo
