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resulted in hundreds of POWs being located and forwarded to the beaches, but only 50 meeting with the beach parties and being evacuated.
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entailed four seaborne beach parties from 2 SAS with the French SAS Squadron as protection.
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involved the interior parachute drop by four parties of Airborne and one party of 2 SAS.
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in the interior and muster them on beach locations for extraction.
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