SAS Chasseurs-Para. is a French Infantry unit added in Back to Hell.
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Demi-Brigade SAS has two 3th and 4th SAS regiments. The French Army designation was 3e & 2e Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes. 4th SAS regiment/2e Régiment de Chasseurs came from the first airborne Free French Volunteers as the 1ère Compagnie d’Infanterie de l’Air. Elements stayed in England for special operations in France while the other elements became 1ère Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes which became attached to the Major Stirling's SAS command as 3rd SAS Squadron. These forces came back to be reinforced in England as 1er Bataillon d’Infanterie de l’Air renamed as 4er Bataillon d’Infanterie de l’Air. 3e BIA was created at the same time with French volunteers from Egypt & Algeria.
This Demi-Brigade SAS were dropped in Britanny to fix German forces to prevent them from engaging the beachheads.
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