OPERATION COLOSSUS 10-12 February 1941
X Troop explodes into action
he first British airborne operation of the war, Colossus tasked 36 officers and men of X Troop, 11th Special Air Service (later 1st Parachute) Battalion with parachuting into southern Italy and blowing up the Tragino aqueduct that provided water for the whole province of Apulia. They succeeded, though all 36 were captured as they tried to escape
