Official specialist stay-behind units are distinguished from ordinary Home Guard formations. Clarke associates the specialist units with SOE and later work in Europe, without explaining that organizational relationship. He also stresses that ordinary Home Guard units could be inventive and lethal. The distinction therefore does not reserve all improvised local defence for the specialist formations.
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Separating stay-behind units from the ordinary Home Guard
Specialist stay-behind units and ordinary Home Guard formations receive separate treatment, while both are credited with ingenuity.