was renamed 4e Bataillon d'Infanterie de l'Air, (4e B.I.A) (4th Air Infantry Battalion) Beginning 1944: training of French SAS in Scotland. The battalion was assigned to the Special Air Service. Night of June 5–6: parachuted into Brittany, 36 paratroopers of the FFL in four groups (two over Plumelec, two over Duault). The sole battle casualty in Plumelec (on June 6 at 0 h 40), caporal Emile Bouétard, was probably the first casualty of the Normandy Landing. June 1944: combined forces with the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and the 2nd U.S. Division. June 1944: fighting along with the maquis de Saint-Marcel, Morbihan and maquis of Duault in Côtes-d'Armor; a battalion (450 men) parachuted in with the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) 3000 total, tied up 85000 Germans in Brittany, preventing them from reaching Normandy, and joined two divisions of George Patton’s army on August 6. On July 1, 1944 the 4th Battalion was renamed 2e R.C.P S.A.S (2nd SAS Parachute Chasseur Regiment) of the 4th SAS Regiment. August 1944: operations and SAS participation in the Liberation of Paris. September 11, 1944: one company took 3000 Germans prisoner. Autumn: rest leave in Champagne. November 11, 1944: the two regiments of the French SAS marched up the Champs-Élysées in Paris before General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 2e RCP was awarded the Compagnon de la Libération designation (Companion of the Liberation). December 23, 1944: provided reinforcement in the Ardennes. February 1945: regrouped in England. Night of April 7–8, 1945: Operation Amherst, parachuted into the Netherlands. Fighting until the 18th. On August 1, 1945 the Parachute Chasseur Regiments merged completely into the French Army. The 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment (3e R.C.P) or 3rd SAS Regiment was dissolved and its components transferred to the 2e R.C.P. Indochina war The colonial battalions On February 1, 1946 the 1er Battaillon de Choc S.A.S, (1e B.C-S.A.S) (1st SAS Shock Battalion) was created from elements of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (1e R.C.P ) and the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment (2e R.C.P). On February 23, 1946 the battalion became the 1er Bataillon Parachutiste S.A.S, (1e B.P-S.A.S) (1st S.A.S Parachute Battalion). On March 1, 1946 the 2e Battaillon de Choc S.A.S, (2e B.C-S.A.S) (2nd S.A.S shock battalion) was created from elements of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (1e R.C.P) and the 1st Shock Parachute Infantry Regiment (1e R.I.C.A.P). On September 25,