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included capturing and holding airborne bridgeheads, road or rail bridges and coastal fortifications. At the end of most exercises, the battalions would march back to their barracks. An ability to cover long distances at speed was also expected: airborne platoons were required to cover a distance of
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was redeployed to parachute duties and on 21 November re-designated the 11th
Special Air Service Battalion, with both a parachute and glider wing, the men of which took part in the first British airborne operation,
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