Soldier 'I': The story of an SAS Hero

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Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. We watched them every step of the way. They were inching forward, knowing we were out there. And every second took them deeper into our ambush. FROM LEFT : PETE “SNAPPER” WINNER AND ANDY McNAB PICTURED TOGETHER AT AN EVENING WITH ANDY McNAB EVENT AT THE CHEPSTOW DRILL HALL. Just in case the enemy might have any problem spotting us, the whole performance took place in the light of a near-full moon. ABOVE AND BELOW : COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY PAUL BRIDGMAN ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL.

It was only an exercise. The yellow blank-firing attachments on the muzzles of our rifles showed that. The enemy were just other lads from 2 Para. a b "American presidential citation". The National Archives. 8 May 1951 . Retrieved 23 January 2011.

Which celebrities are still in SAS: Who Dares Wins?

Nothing travels faster in a battalion than news of the boss’s mood and the word was out. H was not a happy man. On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a remote UK colony in the South Atlantic. The move led to a brief, but bitter war. BELOW : Original one of only two privately commissioned oil paintings by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of Pete “Snapper” Winner , one of the heroic SAS troopers who fought in Operation Storm during The Battle of Mirbat , Oman. Boat engines throbbed, chains rattled and clanked, and friendly Booties flashed lights and called out to one another across the water.

This was encouraging. It told us they’d been worn down by the wind and weather and couldn’t be bothered to dig pits in the freezing cold. All of us wanted us to get the go ahead and get the job done. We all looked at each other and we knew it was on. The hostage takers had crossed the line. As soon as the doors went in we storm into the ground floor looking left and right and head for the cellar door to the left. I remember seeing loads of books and thinking ‘damn, this is our escape route and that lot will catch fire soon’. Charles Cattell (1st SAS - WW2) Military Medal. Sergeant. 'L Detachment', 1st SAS Brigade, Special Raiding Squadron, 1st SAS Regiment. Trooper Steven John “Legs” Lane, MM ( posthumous) former Lance Corporal of 9 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers and former Parachute Regiment. Died of hypothermia during action, 27 January 1991.

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For a full account of the raid, read Prospect’s interview with Winner and Bob Podesta, another member of the team that broke the siege.

Nobody there. We shout ‘room clear’ loud as possible through the masks and it comes out all muffled. We charge to the next one, leapfrogging the other guys.” BELOW IS A BRIEF GALLERY OF SOME OF THE PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION ITEMS FROM ANDY McNAB , CHRIS RYAN AND OTHER SAS MEMBERS NOW ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE SAS EXHIBITION WHICH ARE FEATURED IN AND AMONGST VARIOUS OTHER BRAVO TWO ZERO RELATED EXHIBIT ITEMS .When you are getting bitten by mosquitoes in some stinking jungle or dying of thirst there is no glamour there. But there is, of course, the pride in being part of the élite and there are glamorous jobs when you get taken out of the jungle and find yourself bodyguarding the British Ambassador of Kabul. The SAS look after him.