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Authors: Ben Macintyre

Tags: #World War II, #History, #True Crime, #Espionage, #Europe, #Military, #Great Britain

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The desert wind made controlling the parachute after landing a tricky task.

Recruits were required to practice jumping from a rickety thirty-foot platform.

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Jock Lewes (right) preparing to jump from a Bristol Bombay transport plane.

A recruit to L Detachment SAS jumps into the desert during parachute training.

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Eoin McGonigal

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Blair “Paddy” Mayne

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Fitzroy Maclean

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George Jellicoe

Johnny Cooper

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Malcolm Pleydell

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Bill Fraser

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Fraser McLuskey

Jim Almonds

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Randolph Churchill
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