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First Postwar British Battalion Parachute Assault

Great Britain · Warfare / Suez War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1956

Paul Crook5 November 1956

El Gamil · Warfare / Suez War

Crook leads 3 Para in Britain's first battalion-sized combat parachute assault since the Second World War.

Names involved

Paul Crook

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