dissolved). 5th Shock Battalion / Commandos d'Afrique [fr] (5e BC - dissolved). 6th Shock Battalion / Commandos de Provence [fr] (6e BC - dissolved). 1st...

The Commandos, also known as the British Commandos, were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from Winston Churchill, for...

reorganized as Commandos, numbered from 40 to 48, joining the British Army Commandos in combined Commando Brigades. After the war the Army Commandos were disbanded...

Marine Commando Fusiliers (1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos) better known as Commando Kieffer. During the Allied invasion of Provence, on 15...

guard left with the captives, the commandos tied the prisoners' hands behind their backs. According to the commandos, one prisoner started shouting to...

British Commandos 1940–46. London: Osprey Publishing. pp. 37–49. ISBN 1-84176-986-X. "Les fusiliers marins et les commandos". Ministère de la Défense...

Angolan theatre, later units of Commandos also operated in the Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique theatres The Portuguese Commandos are analogous to the 75th...

overfly deep jungle terrain where ground transport was impracticable. C-46 Commandos also went back to war. A dozen surplus C-46's were purchased in the United...

through his 1942 Commando Order. The Commando Order was issued by Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1942, stating that all Allied commandos encountered by German...

secondment to the commandos; they retained their regimental cap badges and remained on the regimental roll for pay. The new force of commandos came under the...