Jaw-dropping heroics of SAS legend Paddy Mayne’s do-or-die mission dubbed ‘bravest of WW2’ – before he was denied a VC …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
CAUGHT in a Nazi ambush, the trapped SAS men’s plight seemed desperate.
Patrol leader Major Dick Bond and his driver, Trooper Max Levinsohn, lay dead in the ditch, each having been shot in the forehead by a German sniper.
6
Lt-Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne in his SAS capCredit: SAS Regimental Archive/Iimperial War Museum
6
Mayne was portrayed by Jack O’Connell in BBC’s World War Two blockbuster SAS Rogue HeroesCredit: BBC
Others, some severely injured, were trapped further along the…
>