Paddy Mayne's heroic exploits are being portrayed on the hit BBC drama - and already leading to calls for him to be ...

Major Mike Sadler, who died aged 103 at the start of last year, joined the elite Special Air Service after it was formed by David Stirling in 1941.

Jack O'Connell portrays one of the SAS's most important, and controversial, figures Paddy Mayne in the BBC historical drama.

PINNED down by a hail of bullets and deadly accurate mortar shelling, the SAS fighters knew if they stayed put they were dead. But if they failed to silence the network of concrete machine-gun ...

After Stirling was captured and became a prisoner of war in 1943, Mayne was tapped to become commander of the SAS, later renamed ... so Mayne and a volunteer took a jeep into enemy territory ...

The series was based on the true story of the SAS, as told in the books by Ben McIntyre, but why dilly-dally with historical accuracy when you can just stick a bunch of sexy armed men on a jeep ...

This was how the Jeep – a relatively late addition to L Detachment’s desert compendium – became the most instantly recognisable symbol of the wartime SAS. Sadler’s defining moment as navigator – his ...

Jack O’Connell’s Paddy Mayne was the real commander 1st SAS (renamed the Special Raiding Squadron to get around a top brass who had grown uncomfortable with the unit’s wild ways) as they ...

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