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Fred Ashley served with 716 (Airborne) Light Composite Company RASC.He served with the unit in the Ardennes,on the Rhine Crossing and in Palestine.

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Frederick Ashley

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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Ardennes
After the Allied landings in Normandy and subsequent advance through France and Belgium, the German Army had succeeded in sta...

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history. On a single day, over 16,000 men were inserted by gli...
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