Malayan Scouts SAS

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He shot them then dispatched others who were still frozen in their places. When the magazine of the sub-machine gun was empty he put it aside & calmly unholstered a. 38 revolver. He picked off the remainder with carefully aimed shots. When they were all down he holstered the revolver picked up the sub-machine gun & left the building. Inside it all the pilots were either dead or dying. When Japan withdrew its occupying troops at the end of the Second World War the Malayan communists who had fought against the invader felt themselves betrayed by their government their politics outlawed & their sacrifices unrewarded. They returned to the jungle as guerrillas launching a successful campaign against the symbols of colonial power the mines & plantations. In desperation the British Army resurrected a force that had been disbanded after the Second World War: the SAS. Reformed as the Malayan Scouts their task was to succeed where normal soldiering had failed & take the fight to the insurgents in the jungle operating as guerrillas themselves. The Malayan Scouts SAS is one soldiers account of operations during the Malayan Emergency fighting a ruthless enemy in a hostile environment. It is the story of a regiment often despised by its own army perceived as ill-disciplined & uncontrollable & yet fiercely effective against an enemy that traditional units could not best.