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Post-war British operations revert to Brigade size under a single 6th Airborne Division, battalions are drawn into a counter-insurgency conflict over the British mandate in Palestine.
In 1945 the 6th Airborne Division designated the Imperial Strategic Reserve was based in Palestine, administered by Britain under the terms of the 1923 League of Nations Mandate. It was immediately engulfed by the ‘Palestinian Question’, holding the ring against Jewish and Arab inter-communal strife over immigration.
about Palestine
Canal Zone Egypt
In October 1951 the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade flew into Egypt with its three Parachute
about Canal Zone Egypt
Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
At 1000 hours on 24th March 1945 nine battalions of the 6th British Airborne Division
about Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Rwanda (Operation Gabriel)
In the immediate aftermath of Rwanda’s hard fought civil war and the genocide which accompanied
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