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SAS & Commandos leapfrog ahead

3rd October 1943: A seaborne raid thirty miles behind the front line secures the Allied advance on the Adriatic coast

Oct 03, 2023
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Commandos in Italy following a later raid in 1943, with prisoners taken behind the line
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