ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by mrrandom

I caught the tail-end of a program the other night, in it they were talking about some SAS & SOE who had been killed during the closing stages of WW2 and the investigation which followed

something struck me as a little unusual, the grave stones of the SAS soldiers were in a small French graveyard but looked like the white commonwealth war grave headstones on them it had the winged dagger, name, rank and everything you’d expect

it then went on to state

SPECIAL AIR SERVICE of ARMY AIR CORPS

was that a French misunderstanding of there role or were the SAS originally part of the AAC

Look at pictures of SAS in France, and you will see them wearing maroon berets with the SAS badge.

Originally Posted by Joe_Private

Look at pictures of SAS in France, and you will see them wearing maroon berets with the SAS badge.

which I understood to mean they were paras, am i being really thick and missing something obvious

Originally Posted by mrrandom

which I understood to mean they were paras, am i being really thick and missing something obvious

No, you're being thick. Before the paras jumped out of aircraft, they used to prefer to stay in their gliders until they hit the floor.

Originally Posted by mrrandom

which I understood to mean they were paras, am i being really thick and missing something obvious

Willing to be corrected but I was under the impression that when they left the desert for 1944 they were subsumed into the Airborne Division of the attack (makes sense, special AIR service) and thus rebereted from sandy to maroon (but had even previously worn white berets, briefly).

Originally Posted by ooooh_matron

No, you're being thick. Before the paras jumped out of aircraft, they used to prefer to stay in their gliders until they hit the floor.

nothing new there, guess I need to reread some books

Originally Posted by mrrandom

nothing new there, guess I need to reread some books

You can learn all you need to know from porn. Books are over-rated.

Originally Posted by mrrandom

I caught the tail-end of a program the other night, in it they were talking about some SAS & SOE who had been killed during the closing stages of WW2 and the investigation which followed

something struck me as a little unusual, the grave stones of the SAS soldiers were in a small French graveyard but looked like the white commonwealth war grave headstones on them it had the winged dagger, name, rank and everything you’d expect

it then went on to state

SPECIAL AIR SERVICE of ARMY AIR CORPS

was that a French misunderstanding of there role or were the SAS originally part of the AAC

The original AAC was nothing like its modern lot, in the second big war it was an admin hq for airborne forces, so included GPR, SAS & Paras. also if meomery services right the RA Air OPs were too. So you'll find most commonwealth graves of those units will say AAC on them.

Great way to wind up paras by telling them they use to be AAC

THe Army Air Corps encompassed the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service as well as the Glider Pilot Regiment.

Most of the Para Regt and SAS graves from the second world war will carry both cap badges.

We let the Parachute regiment keep the Maroon berets as they were bordering on camp, we opted fro a manly powder blue that gets dirty the second after you shape it.



Note Army Air Corps..........



The above is the old badge...... replaced for the slightly sexier