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    Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars (2 January 1921 – 2 June 2006) was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist...
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    conducted by the 2 Special Air Service, under the command of SAS Major Roy Farran, and Special Operations Executive's Captain Michael Lees. The operation...
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    organization and in particular, assembled the letter bomb which was sent to Roy Farran while stationed in Britain as an undercover agent. He later became the...
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    Roy Farran, sixty men landed with 20 Jeeps at Rennes airfield near the Breton capital, which was by then under Allied control. Two days later Farran divided...
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    by Roy Farran abducted Alexander Rubowitz, an unarmed 17-year-old Lehi member who was subsequently killed by Farran, resulting in a scandal. Farran was...
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  • Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Still in Italy in Operation Tombola, Major Roy Farran and 2nd SAS carried out a raid on a German Corps headquarters in the Po...
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  • 1949 novel by Robert Heinlein The Day After Tomorrow, a 1956 novel by Roy Farran The Day After Tomorrow (novel), a 1994 novel by Allan Folsom The Day After...
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    driver of the jeep, Major Roy Farran, and the other passengers were thrown clear from the wreck and knocked unconscious. Farran had been Campbell's aide-de-camp...
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  • Rafael Font Farran (1912–2003), Spanish politician and journalist Roy Farran (1921–2006), British-Canadian soldier, politician, etc. Zein Farran (born 1999)...
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    the Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants case Roy Farran (born 1921), WW2 Victoria Cross winner and member of the SAS Peter Broadbent...
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