Rogue Heroes: Veteran of the SAS

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Sadler is the last surviving original member of the SAS and is featured in the new television series SAS Rogue Heroes as a dashing young man and master of desert warfare. Major Sadler, now 101, was the navigator for the regiment’s founder David Stirling, guiding raiding columns for hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa. In this archive interview, he talks to Dan about how he came to join this legendary unit at its very conception and his service during the Second World War.

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1:13.0	There's a new TV show in the UK that's proving a hit.
1:16.0	It's a dramatization of Ben Macintosh's book, Ben Macintosh has been on the podcast,
1:22.0	talking about the early years, the formation of the SAS in North Africa 80 years ago.
1:27.0	That has now been dramatized and it's proving very popular.
1:30.0	I love it.
1:31.0	Not because it's particularly accurate, doesn't give you a particularly insightful portrayal
1:37.0	into the course of the war in North Africa, but because it's really good.
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