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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1684834" data-attributes="member: 3144">A group from the Special Boat Section (SBS) pose for the camera on a Greek island. c.1942.Dick Holmes, one of the few surviving SBS members, put it like this: "We were to be terrorists, our job was to terrorise the Germans, and we did.”The Special Boat Section was founded in July 1940 by a Commando officer, Roger Courtney. He was unsuccessful in his initial attempts to convince the Admiralty, that his idea of a folding kayak brigade would be effective. He decided to infiltrate HMS Glengyle, an Infantry Landing Ship, anchored in the River Clyde. Courtney paddled to the ship, climbed aboard undetected, wrote his initials on the door to the captain's cabin, and stole a deck gun cover. He presented the soaking cover to a group of high-ranking Royal Navy officers meeting at a nearby Inveraray hotel. He was promoted to captain, and given command of twelve men, the first Special Boat Section.Attached to Layforce they moved to the Middle East, they later worked with the 1st Submarine Flotilla based at Alexandria and carried out beach reconnaissance of Rhodes, evacuated troops left behind on Crete and a number of small-scale raids and other operations. In December 1941 Courtney returned to the United Kingdom where he formed No2 SBS, and No1 SBS became attached to the Special Air Service (SAS). In June 1942 they took part in the Crete airfield raids. In September 1942 they carried out Operation Anglo, a raid on two airfields on the island of Rhodes, from which only two men returned. Destroying three aircraft, a fuel dump and numerous buildings, the surviving SBS men had to hide in the countryside for four days before they could reach the <img src="https://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/expressifs/sablierr.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="waiting" title="Espera    waiting" data-shortname="waiting" /> submarine. After the Rhodes raid the SBS was absorbed into the SAS due to the casualties they had suffered.In April 1943, 1st SAS was divided into two with 250 men from the SAS and the Small Scale Raiding Force, forming the Special Boat Squadron under the command of Major Jellicoe. They moved to Haifa and trained with the Greek Sacred Regiment for operations in the Aegean.They later operated among the Dodecanese and Cyclades groups of islands in the Dodecanese Campaign and took part in the Battle of Leros and the Battle of Kos. They with Greek Sacred Band took part in the successful Raid on Symi in July 1944 in which the entire German garrison was either killed or captured. In August 1944 they joined with the Long Range Desert Group in operations in the Adriatic, on the Peloponnese, in Albania, and, finally, Istria. So effective were they that by 1944 200–300 SBS men held down six German divisions.Throughout the war, the No2 SBS did not use the Special Boat Squadron name but instead retained the name Special Boat Section. They accompanied Major General Mark Clark ashore before the Operation Torch landings in November 1942. Later one group, Z SBS, which was based in Algiers from March 1943, carried out the beach reconnaissance for the Salerno landings and a raid on Crete, before moving to Ceylon to work with the Special Operations Executives, Force 136 and later with Special Operations Australia. The rest of No2 SBS became part of South-East Asia Command's Small Operations Group, operating on the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers, and in the Arakan, during the Burma campaign.They became known as the Special Boat Service in the 1980's.(Colourisation and text by Paul Reynolds)<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10700153_606307052832424_3302610460307262629_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> PD:Dick Holmes ex SBS - aged 92 in October 2013<img src="https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10437341_606315469498249_3829375287043236717_n.jpg?oh=7d8d6cff99f00667fb5aa00451f1163d&oe=551038F9" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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