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thedrifter
08-23-02, 11:58 AM
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At the end of the Second World War, the Special Operations Group, in the Far East, was returned to the UK, but many stayed on and moved to non-amphibious units, because conventional commanders and politicians saw little use for Special Forces in the post-war Atomic Age. The War Office Tactical Investigation Committee decided to raise and train short term, shallow penetration, Special Forces under the Royal Marines, while the other Special Forces' units were disbanded altogether.
Those sections of SOG which remained intact were transferred to the Royal Marines, and the men who formed the new sections were from SOG, including the Special Boat Section, RM Detachment 385, Sea Reconnaissance Unit, Combined Operation Pilotage Parties and Boom Patrol detachments. Only a small number of these men stayed on, reporting to Westward Ho! Hotel, which had been the wartime headquarters of Combined Operations Experimental Establishment. The men numbered fewer than 60, under the command of Blondie Hasler.


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Sempers,

Roger