Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War (17 page)
Authors: Ben Macintyre
Tags: #World War II, #History, #True Crime, #Espionage, #Europe, #Military, #Great Britain
BOOK: Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
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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.
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.
Eoin McGonigal
Blair “Paddy” Mayne
Fitzroy Maclean
George Jellicoe
Johnny Cooper
Malcolm Pleydell
Bill Fraser
Fraser McLuskey
Jim Almonds
Randolph Churchill
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