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COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) were formed in December 1942, when the need for invasion beach reconnaissance and assault guidance for invasion fleets were officially recognized. COPPs were a revolutionary concept: independent teams, led by Lieutenants, Royal Nay qualified Navigators and Hydrographers – capable of navigating cruisers or aircraft carriers – teamed with Captains, Royal Engineers, preferably commando trained: to make...
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The Path of Duty charts the progress of a child of the Raj, Brigadier Geoffrey Herbert Bruno Beyts MC, DSO, MBE known less formally as Bill or 'Billy'. During a career with the Indian Army he saw action against Burmese rebels, Waziri tribesman and the Japanese Army. In 1930, aged only 22 and commanding a company of his father's old Regiment, the Third Battalion, Sixth Rajputana Rifles, Beyts was allotted an area of Burmese teak forest the size of...
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