Operation Bulbasket
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Operation Bulbasket was an operation undertaken by 'B' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service, behind enemy lines in German occupied France, between June and August 1944. The operation took place to the ea
A Special Air Service Jeep armed with Vickers K machine guns of the type used during Operation Bulbasket
Milice
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The Milice française, generally called la Milice, was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime to help fight against the French Resistance during World War
Operation Bulbasket
…Paul McCue lists the following: The initiation of four air attacks and a possible fifth, killing upwards of 150 German troops and an unknown number of Milices Responsibility for the destruction of crucial petrol stocks, delaying the progress of the 2nd Panzer Division towards the Normandy landing area…
Members of the Milice, armed with captured British Bren machine guns and No. 4 Lee–Enfield rifles.
Resistance members captured by the Milice, July 1944. One of the miliciens is armed with a captured British Sten gun.
Propaganda poster for the Milice, advertising its first national congress.
Milice member guarding Resistance PoWs wearing a German Army Wound Badge (indicating previous service with a German Army unit) and armed with a Spanish copy of the Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver, chambered in 8mm French Ordnance.