Online Collection

The Online Collection showcases a selection of our objects for you to discover and explore. This resource will grow as the Museum's Collection is catalogued and computerised, and as new acquisitions are added.

« New search

« Prev - 1 of 1 results - Next »

A Special Boat Section team at Hillhead, Hampshire, shortly before leaving for Algiers, 1944

Photograph, World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), 1944.

The Special Boat Section was formed in July 1940. Its men used folding canoes in a number of small-scale raids against railways, port facilities and airfields in Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. They also carried out beach reconnaissance missions, including ones for the cancelled invasion of Rhodes (1941) and the Operation Torch (1942), Salerno (1943) and Anzio (1944) landings in North Africa and Italy.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1987-04-8-5

Copyright/Ownership

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1987-04-8-5