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A story of the SBS, Helmand Province, June 2006, audio

Operation Ilois

A story of the SBS, Helmand Province, June 2006, audio

The Ditch at Sangin The Ditch at Sangin BattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/810.9352381× Author's Note This story dramatises Operation Ilois, a real British Special Boat Service (SBS) action in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in June 2006. A sixteen-man team from C Squadron SBS and the

A story of the Special Boat Service, Kabul, 15 April 2012

Story dramatises a real action

A story of the Special Boat Service, Kabul, 15 April 2012

Eight and a Half Hours The muezzin's call came in twice that morning before the shooting started, and Corporal Callum Fraser lay on a rooftop in Wazir Akbar Khan with his cheek against warm concrete and thought, not for the first time, that Kabul was the strangest posting

A British rescue operation

A British rescue operation

D Company, 1 PARA. Sierra Leone. 10 September 2000. I. The Chinook smelled of JP-8 aviation fuel, wet kit, and the particular quiet of men who had been told the odds and chosen not to discuss them. Danny Kavanagh sat with his SA80 between his knees and the dark