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9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat
Manage episode 438880400 series 3318965
Did you miss it? One of the most popular episodes we ever released from Season One is back for an encore listen:
Russian and Chinese-backed rebels were making deadly headway in Oman during its Civil War of the early 1970s. In support of the Western-allied Sultan, the British Army secretly deployed nine operators from its most elite unit, the SAS. HBH is honored to have our guest, Pete Winner, with a special appearance by Sekonaia ‘Tak’ Takevisi, two of the nine SAS heroes who took on over 400 Omani rebels at the Battle of Mirbat.
At stake on July 19th 1972 was more than just a single battle for a small town on the Gulf of Oman. Due to Mirbat’s geographic significance, had the SAS fallen the communist rebels would have taken hold of the region – and controlled the global shipping routs for Middle Eastern oil.
Statues of individual soldiers are rare, but due to his heroism at the Battle of MIrbat, there are not one but two statues of Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba. One unveiled in 2009 at the SAS headquarters in Herefordshire, and another in 2018 by Harry and Megan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in Fiji - which at the time of Labalaba’s enlistment was still a British colony.
Pete Winner is the author of his bestselling memoir "SOLDIER, I," which he wrote with Michael Kennedy.
Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the '80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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1. 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Desperately Seeking the '80s (00:10:05)
3. (Cont.) 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:10:40)
4. [Ad] Silent Currents: Inside the Scandal That Rocked Paralympic Swimming (00:13:53)
5. (Cont.) 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:14:40)
142 episod
Manage episode 438880400 series 3318965
Did you miss it? One of the most popular episodes we ever released from Season One is back for an encore listen:
Russian and Chinese-backed rebels were making deadly headway in Oman during its Civil War of the early 1970s. In support of the Western-allied Sultan, the British Army secretly deployed nine operators from its most elite unit, the SAS. HBH is honored to have our guest, Pete Winner, with a special appearance by Sekonaia ‘Tak’ Takevisi, two of the nine SAS heroes who took on over 400 Omani rebels at the Battle of Mirbat.
At stake on July 19th 1972 was more than just a single battle for a small town on the Gulf of Oman. Due to Mirbat’s geographic significance, had the SAS fallen the communist rebels would have taken hold of the region – and controlled the global shipping routs for Middle Eastern oil.
Statues of individual soldiers are rare, but due to his heroism at the Battle of MIrbat, there are not one but two statues of Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba. One unveiled in 2009 at the SAS headquarters in Herefordshire, and another in 2018 by Harry and Megan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in Fiji - which at the time of Labalaba’s enlistment was still a British colony.
Pete Winner is the author of his bestselling memoir "SOLDIER, I," which he wrote with Michael Kennedy.
Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the '80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Bab
1. 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Desperately Seeking the '80s (00:10:05)
3. (Cont.) 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:10:40)
4. [Ad] Silent Currents: Inside the Scandal That Rocked Paralympic Swimming (00:13:53)
5. (Cont.) 9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat (00:14:40)
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