SAS - Rogue Warriors episode 1
SAS - Rogue Warriors episode 1: The remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force. Episode one tells the story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the north African desert in 1941.
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Transcript
00:10On a November night in 1941, high
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undefined:undefinedfar behind enemy lines
00:37and under heavy fire.
00:41The pilot turned to the officer
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01:17a closely-guarded secret.
01:21With unprecedented access
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01:44and recorded quickly.
01:47That band of vagabonds
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02:22in the world.
02:24Its missions are
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02:46This is the official image
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03:02and, in some cases,
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undefined:undefinedfrom the deserts of North Africa
03:23to the very heart of Nazi Germany
03:25and recorded it all in the archive's
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03:45liberated from Nazi Germany.
03:47It lists every detail
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04:02character and personalities of
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04:33with an elaborate scheme
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undefined:undefinedany actual fighting.
04:50And he couldn't even march straight.
04:52He was so tall and so lazy
04:54his comrades nicknamed him
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05:16hoping to seize military glory.
05:19His seniors considered
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undefined:undefinedif not self-confident,
05:37believed he knew just what to do
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06:11From the start, we knew we would
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06:36By 1941, the Axis powers of Hitler
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06:55His aircraft dominated the skies,
06:58effectively halting
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07:13behind the lines in the desert,
07:15massed British commando raids
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07:32into smaller raiding parties.
07:35These would be far more mobile and
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07:54the imagination of the top command.
08:01Stirling knew that the Germans had
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08:22Stirling acquired a shipment
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08:45was attached to the tail pin,
08:47and, before it broke loose,
08:50it took off a panel or two
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undefined:undefineda marvellous opportunity
09:15to do some homework on the project.
09:18Undaunted by his disastrous first
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09:33and so had all their guns
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undefined:undefined120 degrees by day
10:02and plummet to freezing at night.
10:05It is not an easy place to live.
10:08But it is a very easy place to die.
10:13One of the most hostile
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10:30From here, they could wreak havoc
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10:47Stirling had just drawn up the
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11:03which were new in Army terms.
11:07And, therefore, we would have to
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11:29and surrounded by barbed wire,
11:31British HQ in Cairo was an
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11:48In the eyes of some,
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12:04the normal rules and regulations
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undefined:undefinedthe stuff of myth.
12:27Still on crutches
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12:42to get over the wire when
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12:59to have me sacked
13:01when I didn't take my
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undefined:undefinedGeneral Sir Neil Ritchie...
13:20..the very man he wanted to see.
13:23It took him rather by surprise,
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undefined:undefinedStirling story.
13:43It has the patina of a tale
13:45polished, told, and retold
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undefined:undefinedtiming couldn't have been better.
14:00Richie's superior,
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undefined:undefinedcounterattack looming,
14:21Stirling's plan could hamper enemy
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undefined:undefinedto create and command what looked
14:41suspiciously like a private army.
14:47To the fury of many at British HQ,
14:50Stirling was promptly promoted to
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undefined:undefinedin the Middle East.
15:35Operating from the basement
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undefined:undefinedthe enemy that the British
15:53had a large airborne force
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undefined:undefinedsounding title - L Detachment,
16:07Special Air Service Brigade.
16:10Stirling would later joke
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16:55Stirling was looking
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17:12You'll get the diehards,
17:13they've got a nice, comfortable job
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undefined:undefinedgetting into the Army.
17:28A, because I was too young,
17:30and, B, because they thought
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17:52"that you've joined
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18:19who could fight a new
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undefined:undefinedconventional, regimental discipline.
18:46They didn't fully appreciate
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19:10Stirling's enemies at British HQ
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19:32Someone said, "Where's the camp?"
19:34And David said, "That's the first
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undefined:undefinedZealanders were out on their march,
19:59we would take
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undefined:undefinedthe unit to be with.
20:23And so started L Detachment.
20:29Forging a new fighting unit
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undefined:undefinedof Jock Lewes before the war.
20:57Athletic, rich, patriotic
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21:23..ever since he was a child.
21:26Jock had a very clear vision
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21:53He was a man Stirling was determined
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22:18British paratroopers had never been
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undefined:undefinedNone of us had done it.
22:32So, he had a brilliant idea.
22:34He thought it was anyway.
22:36And we got some trucks.
22:40And the idea was at 10mph,
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23:22Many broke bones,
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undefined:undefinedrunning, you stop thinking."
23:40It was very sound advice.
23:43But there was another secret side
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24:09of the Third Reich.
24:10Lewes even fell in love
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undefined:undefinedsuddenly saw with horrible clarity
24:39the true nature of the regime
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undefined:undefinedMirren ever more loving letters.
25:02And she replied
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undefined:undefinedthe day when Britain hauls down
25:16"the colours of her beliefs before
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25:32was that of a man who had been
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25:58But because he was convinced
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26:22How his faith
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26:52TV ANNOUNCER: Our paratroops have
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undefined:undefinedStirling in shorts,
27:10introducing General Auchinleck
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27:25Stirling said that although he
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undefined:undefinedrecruit - Lieutenant Blair Mayne,
27:40known as Paddy.
27:41Paddy was very, very different.
27:45The antithesis of Jock.
27:50A former Irish rugby international,
27:53Mayne was a hard drinker
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undefined:undefinedhe'd found Mayne in prison,
28:10awaiting court martial.
28:11He found reason to knock out
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28:35He had a marvellous battle nostril.
28:39He knew how to exploit surprise.
28:41And what looked to be absolutely
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29:14bristling with enemy aircraft.
29:17These would undoubtedly attack
29:19Auchinleck's advancing
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29:35and destroy as many aeroplanes
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29:51The men could hear the occasional
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30:21He knew he'd cracked it.
30:22And he knew that the SAS were going
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30:51with just five days' supply
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31:12the Long Range Desert Group,
31:14a unit experienced in desert
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31:30Lewes was elated at the prospect
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31:50there was one factor over which
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32:19Weather was against us going.
32:21We were all given the option
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32:45Stirling and Lewes could have been
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33:07I wasn't prepared to see
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33:31Stirling almost certainly made
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33:47That evening, we were given a meal.
33:49It was out of this world,
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34:31As soon as they reached the coast,
34:32the enemy's air defences opened up
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undefined:undefinedwhy am I frightened?"
34:53He said, "Not to worry,
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35:17Seized by the wind,
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35:54I don't know whether you know
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undefined:undefinedStirling's team was now useless.
36:22And, now, somehow, lost
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undefined:undefined"At least we won't die of thirst."
36:52We saw this light in the distance.
36:55Jock thought it was a star.
36:59I said, "No, no, it's not a star.
37:01"It's a light. That's the thing."
37:04The handful of survivors had found
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37:31others dragged to their deaths,
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undefined:undefinedso much talent in those who we lost.
38:07We had to try and survive.
38:19Thinking that 21 of us came out of
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38:35a piece of cake.
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39:04With their distinctive
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39:19advanced desert mapping techniques
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39:41One of the LRDG's best navigators
39:43was 21-year-old
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40:10Sun threw a shadow onto
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undefined:undefinedright or not by observing the stars.
40:29And that was the thing
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undefined:undefinedgun again, with great relief!
41:05Stirling soon realised that men with
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undefined:undefinedabout higher matters.
41:38Stirling took his new plan
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undefined:undefinedand back into Egypt.
41:53But Rommel's rapid advance
41:55had left his forces overstretched
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undefined:undefinedour first series of operations
42:11with the Long Range Desert Group.
42:16Ahead of them lay a 350-mile journey
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undefined:undefineddetermined to get back into the war.
42:47They headed into the desert
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undefined:undefinedand they would have disbanded it
43:03before it even got off the ground.
43:29There are few experiences
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undefined:undefinedstate of sweaty semi-consciousness.
43:47The trucks frequently broke down
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undefined:undefinedbad temper to prove it.
44:08First few days, there was nobody,
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undefined:undefinedthe coastal belt,
44:44you start to get a bit of shrub,
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45:11The men hiked several miles until
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undefined:undefinedon every aircraft they could find.
45:42Setting the fuses
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undefined:undefinedthem an epic trail of destruction
46:18and a bewildered enemy.
46:21There is no defence against a small
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undefined:undefinedchilling account of what followed.
46:51"I stood there with my Colt .45.
46:54"The others at my side with a Tommy
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undefined:undefinedand moved slowly backwards.
47:11"I shot him.
47:13"I turned and fired at another,
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undefined:undefinedby the shooting of some 30 men
47:35at point-blank range.
47:39He reported, "It was necessary
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undefined:undefinedto cold-blooded killing.
47:58It showed just how far the unit had
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undefined:undefinedgot the biggest bag.
48:25They got 37 planes.
48:28And we went back to the same place
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undefined:undefinedthe enemy before disappearing
48:47into their oasis hideout
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undefined:undefinedwe had gazelle and rum and lime.
49:09We had a very, very nice Christmas.
49:11Fired up by success, Stirling would
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undefined:undefinedthe desert,
49:37looking for the telltale dust
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undefined:undefinedanything was going to go wrong.
50:03Jock Lewes could tell his fiancee
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undefined:undefinedand a possible medal.
50:18"Off again tomorrow.
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undefined:undefinedand dangerous work."
50:40But beneath the chivalric tone
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undefined:undefinedto be my life's work
51:05"because it will be well done
51:08"and a thing to be proud of
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undefined:undefinedtoo much regimentality
51:52about him in active conditions.
51:54I think that's one of the things
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undefined:undefinedthey were sitting ducks.
52:17The SAS trucks could not escape
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undefined:undefinedthat everybody bears off.
52:46Jock Lewes stayed too long
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undefined:undefinedthe Lewes raid limped back
53:49to the oasis, bringing news
53:52that one of the unit's
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undefined:undefinedwho had insisted
54:05that collecting the dead
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"Please remember you are my
:undefineddearest and only love.
54:26"Don't leave me ever.
54:28"You always have my love
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undefined:undefinedbefore he died, and he said,
54:52"Mirren."
55:01We were a unit that if any...
55:03anybody got killed,
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undefined:undefinedand that was it.
55:35By January 1942,
55:37L Detachment had destroyed
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undefined:undefinedwith their heads held high.
56:13Stirling was promoted to major,
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undefined:undefinedwere no longer learners.
56:29But success had come at a price.
56:3934 men had been lost in the first
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undefined:undefinedwas never found,
57:04lost forever in the Great Sand Sea.
57:08Jock was absolutely key
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undefined:undefinedand dangerous
57:39as the new phase of war
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undefined:undefinedspecial units to track,
58:03intercept and kill
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