Johnny cooper sas obituary examples
Johnny cooper sas obituary examples
Special forces roll of honour.
The Originals: Remarkable photograph shows the elite troops who carried out the SAS’s first ever raid as they were parachuted into Libya for Operation Squatter in 1941
This astonishing photograph reveals the survivors of the first ever Special Air Service (SAS) operation.
The image - only recently found by researchers - features some of the regiment’s most famous members following Operation Squatter, the SAS’s disastrous first raid which involved attacking enemy airfields in Libya.
The idea of the mission in November 1941 was to parachute troops behind enemy lines to destroy aircraft and supplies, but they failed to destroy a single enemy plane and just 22 of the 65 SAS men made it back.
In awful weather conditions of a strong gale and heavy rain, one of the aircraft carrying the SAS was shot down, killing all 15 soldiers and the crew, and their demolition material was soaked.
But the men were sent back by Captain David Stirling the next month by land and managed to destroy mor