Enjoy your time in Fiddler's Green, Brother. The last surviving member of the original SAS has died aged 92. Jimmy Storie was one of 66 men handpicked to embark on a series of daring and deadly missions against the ***. The brave Scots Guards officer joined the first version of the Special Air Service, L Detachment, which operated in North Africa against Field Marshal Rommel. The regiment’s first parachute raid ended in disaster when almost two-thirds of the unit was wiped out after they leapt from a plane during a severe desert storm. But Jimmy and his colleagues, known as The Originals, soon became the scourge of the German and Italian forces.
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Feb 05 2012, 03:12 AM
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