Rogue Heroes: Veteran of the SAS
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The L.R.D.G.
Colonel Bagnoed, who did the groundwork before the war, set it up originally. He had invented or designed a sun compass, a very, very good sun compass. So you could set a course on it and we had a few tables to work out where the sun was at any given moment in the day. And with the aid of that, you could drive fairly accurately in the daytime,. The sun usually was shining then. That training became useful later when I was sailing. But I had to add to the knowledge by learning about the tides and currents. It was just like being on the ocean, except there weren't the currents to contend with. You were a star navigating just
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