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    Quote Originally Posted by Tango Sierra View Post
    Afrikaans would probably have been quite useful then. :) I've been to Arnhem and the Airborne Museum. It's a very neat and well kept area, nice houses. I felt like a bit of a colonial scumbag walking around there haha.
    Some light reading you may enjoy:
    http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol102ma.html

    This is now a total hijack of the thread. This link mentions Robey Leibbrand(a SA born German spy), a good friend of my grandfather, Claud Sterling was responsible for the capture of Leibbrand. Both Leibrand and Sterling had Spingbok colors for boxing and were friends before the war. At the time Sterling was a Sgt in the police.
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    Many thanks - I've come across that website before when conducting research but not this before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CorditeCrazy View Post
    You'll be even more surprised to know a platoon of South Africans jumped into Arnhem.
    Hi CC. Your source for this please. I was under the impression that a only single SA para (McComb) was at Arnhem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Wells View Post
    Hi CC. Your source for this please. I was under the impression that a only single SA para (McComb) was at Arnhem.
    Yeah, but one Saffer counts as a whole platoon of regular meatbombs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Wells View Post
    Hi CC. Your source for this please. I was under the impression that a only single SA para (McComb) was at Arnhem.
    Hi Peter. Yea, I totally read it wrong. Seems it was only one chap, oops. Source is the one provided.
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    Roger to you both Paul and CC

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