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David Stirling: SAS hero or fraud?

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The Long Range Desert Group

The long range desert group, whose speciality was reconnaissance, suggested to stirling that it made sense if they taxied them to their target. The first operation involved paddy maine and sterling. And may split into two quite inexplicably. Sterling took just one other soldier with him, jimmy broth, whereas main took five, o six in total, main and five others. They destroyed a mess full of ar air crew and 24 enemy aircraft. Two weeks later, they return to the same airfields. This time, paddy maino and his five men destroyed 27 aircraft. Sterling, this time, wandered into a mine field. His next rai destroyed 15 aircraft. But

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