During World War II, Operation Speedwell was an early Special Air Service raid against Italian rail targets near Genoa starting on 7 September 1943. It formed part of Operation Slapstick.Category:All articles with unsourced statementsCategory:Articles with unsourced statements from January 2024^{[citation needed]} The fourteen-man group split into a number of smaller units to destroy track and ambush trains. The surviving raiders returned to friendly lines on foot after up to seven months behind enemy lines, some after time in captivity.

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• "No. 36785". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 November 1944. p. 5131.Category:Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y#36785
• Morton, James (2008-09-18). "Obituary—Harold Challenor". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
• Claudio Biscarini (10 June 2015). "Eroi sconosciuti: l'Operazione Speedwell tra Liguria e Toscana". Della storia d'Empoli (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-05-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival serviceCategory:CS1 Italian-language sources (it)