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If you read this C, I direct your attention to my comments of Operation Champion.

Paul, in Saudi

Paul

Thank you, your comments on Champion which weren’t seen as this site appears to have had some problems?

Anyway, I would say there is no question of ‘wrong’ or ‘right’, Operation Champion remains a question for us we can’t answer. At some stage when a member is next at the PRO we’ll try and examine a file on it.

We mentioned previously the SOG conducting amphibious operations all along the Arakan. We believe they alone conducted some 170 operations there, but please don’t ask us to name them, assuming they all had recorded operational names?

In respect of Operation Clawhammer for example, we cannot be specific at the moment. We believe it could have been similar to Biting as there were Knickebein and X-Gerat devises there? There again, any such raid may have been the province of the paratroops, SOE, SIS or perhaps the Navy, in which case there is unlikely to be an reference to the Commandos. Until we can find out, this too remains open.

Regards CVA

Dear C- OK, Operation Champion is gone. Now let's look into CLAWHAMMER!

Paul, in Saudi

In the list of operations section at the end, suggest removing the raids conducted by the SAS, and the non SAS raids in the duplicate section on the SAS page. Or do people feel there is any merit in this duplication? CVA]

Good concise article but seems to be missing pictures: For starters has anyone got a pic of the badge? Wiki-Ed 14:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

1 Pictures and References
2 Will help out a lot on this one
3 Training
4 Operation Collar wrong link or needs disambiguation?
5 A Question on 142 Commando in Burma

[edit] Pictures and References

This would make a good featured article if we could find three references and a couple more pictures.

I've got access to most pictures, badges etc. that can be found. Can provide pictures of the Fairbairn/Sykes fighting knife, the badge, the beret, a lot of pictures from operations etc. I'll also try to rip a video from the operation in Walcheren (which I'm surprised isn't mentioned with a single word in the article). Regards from mastertigurius

[edit] Will help out a lot on this one

I've noticed quite a lot of information missing from the Commando wiki. My father is a renown expert on the Norwegian commandos (and personally knows several of them), in addition to having vast knowledge about operations, techniques, equipment and structure. Will notify him of this article, so that it can become as complete as possible.

[edit] Training

The article refers to the fact that all training was conducted with live ammunition. However it makes no reference to the horrific casualties suffered during said training. Can anyone expand this bit? Dr Spam (MD) 08:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Accounts from Lochailort and Achnacarry suggest there were casualties but not large numbers though no records appear to have been kept.^[1] --jmb (talk) 14:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

^ Commando Country, Stuart Allan, national Museums Scotland 2007, ISBN 9781905267149

[edit] Operation Collar wrong link or needs disambiguation?

The article refers to an Operation Collar and links to the same here on wikipedia, but the article there doesn't sound like a commando raid in France, but more like a ship convoy in the Meditteranean? I don't know anything about either (just cruising around reading), but this seems like there were either two "Operation Collars" or it's misnamed somewhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.193.194 (talk) 05:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Question on 142 Commando in Burma

I notice that one of the statements on this page has been edited a little, but may have lost some of its meaning in the process.

On the CBI Theater, they went along with the British Chindits and U.S. Merrill's Marauders.

became

In the India / Burma theatre 142 Commando Company also operated in conjunction with the U.S. unit Merrill's Marauders.

I am currently researching 142 commando and have not found any reference to the working with Merrill's Marauders. 142 Commando tend to only get mentioned in regard to the 1st Expedition (1943) and I have yet seen no reference to them being in the second expedition (1944) except for the reference on this page. This page implies that they were in the second expedition as Merrill's Maruaders were only involved in the that expedition.

The reference here in its modified form is also different from what existed before as now it implies that 142 Commando were only operating with Merrill's Marauders and not the Chindits.

I'd like to get all this cleared up, but to do that I think we need to know the original references which lead to these statements. 213.143.11.200 (talk) 14:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)