Rogue Heroes: Veteran of the SAS
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Do You Do on D-Day?
I was a dispatching officer at the time of D-Day. I was sending off the little parties, briefing them and taking them to airfields to drop. And so I did a little do that and then I got the debris and reported what happened. But as a sort of in the second pilot seat, the sterling hadn't had a second pilot, they didn't carry a second pilot. So I could usually manage to go out with a dropping party. And so we were getting new people in, we got a recruiting people and training up in Scotland. That was the sort of meaning of what we were doing. Then I got became a NIO at the intelligence officer of sorts because
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