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Pte Kenneth Lloyd Osorio volunteered for airborne forces and transferred from a Royal Artillery Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1943.He undertook parachute training course 71, which ran at RAF Ringway from 5 July to 17 July 1943, and served with 12 Platoon, C Company, 5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion.

Service History

Operations

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Palestine
Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme d...

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North Africa (Operation Torch)
On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and ...

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Italy
The Italians had capitulated while the force was still at sea. The sinking of HMS Abdiel by a mine in the harbour, however, r...

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South France (Operation Dragoon)
The airborne assault was mounted alongside five US Parachute Battalions and one US Air Landing Brigade. The 51st US Troop Car...

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Greece (Operation Manna)
One company of the 4th Para Battalion was dropped in high winds at Megara airfield 40 miles from Athens suffering numero...
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