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WW2: Special Boat Service

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Special Forces Training to Day

S b s training included extreme physical fitness and endurance. They would take them on missions, or at least exercises for missions. One particular mission was a canoeing exercise over two days and nights in scotland. And they travelled 100 and forty miles by canoe. It seems totally mad to me. I think that myself and possibly james holland and maybe one or two other historians are o actually going to try and recreate this next year. We'll see if that actually comes off. But it would be a lot of fun.

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