SAS Rogue Heroes - new series on BBC iplayer...

 

BBC have done it again with another great new series. From the director of Peaky Blinders a action packed rocking soundtrack history of probably the most famous group of military men in British military history.

Famous because they went against traditional military procedure and those who previously did not fit in with Military discipline found a place together to serve with the already Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and along side then as part of a new unit called the Special Air Service took a new direction in military tactics that was at first at loggerheads against the powers to be at first, until they saw what they were capable of.

 Winston Churchill said in now famous words `time to unleash the dogs of war', 

And what a devastation they unleashed Axis Airfields  tearing through Axis airfields causing death and destroying aircraft and supplies.

The SAS turned the tide of the Desert campaign and ultimately a big part in the eventual WW2 victory.

There was also another enemy they had to deal with - The desert....

With 2 wheel drive Chevvy trucks of the LRDG another vehicle became their tool of choice, the Willys Jeep. with 4 wheel drive armed with twin aircraft Vickers and 50mm machine guns and aircraft bulllet proof glass they could speed though airfields and cause mayhem, death and destruction...

This was where the Willys Jeep became famous though later campaigns of 1944 seem to put this war in the shade slightly...

Airfix model...

Started by Scotsman David Stirling The unit became  the feared unit of Axis forces and is no doubt still the best special forces squadron today. 

Reality TV shows with celebrities going through supposedly SAS selection are really an insult to men who served and continue to serve in the Special Air Service.

My late dad was friends with an ex member,  Peter was the first warden at John Muir Country Park outside Dunbar here in East Lothian in the late 1970`s, and passed away a few years ago...

We visited the David Sterling Memorial a few years ago...

Film when we were there...

Here is the Youtube trailer for the series

If in UK you can watch on BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0d5z0xy/sas-rogue-heroes?seriesId=p0d5z1ds

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David Stirling, SAS Memorial...

`UPHOLDING THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE`

I`m constantly reading WW2 books, esp anything Scottish related, and i have read a lot about the Special Air Service. The SAS were founded in 1941 by Scotsman David Stirling after his Commando Unit was disbanded...

This film on YouTube has a few sound glitches but all uploads of this film seem to have the same issue,
This the only ever film interview with Stirling and some of the SAS Originals...



Ordinary men who do extraordinary things...
I met a man who lives here in East Lothian one day at Tyninghame car park, he knew who i was as did his wife. He said he worked with my late father at John Muir Country park as a park ranger. I remember they visited the house  when we were kids, real nice man who became a friend of my father,
When i said hello to my father from him that afternoon in the Nursing home Dad said to me "do you remember what i told you what he did before coming to work with me?"
Then i remembered Dad had told me he was a former member of the SAS, Could not meet a nicer man, but he was tough as old boots and i think he would have been serving around the time of the Iranian siege in London in 1980. which was the first  time ever the SAS were shown in action on TV...

Until Sunday i never knew there was a memorial to David Stirling and the SAS members and driving home from Callender we de toured via Doune village behind Brian who led us to the hill top....

It`s an impressive monument to brave men...


David Stirling Memorial from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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