Paddy's heartbreaking order to his men | SAS Rogue Heroes - BBC

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SAS Rogue Heroes is the adrenaline-fuelled origins of the fearless, reckless Special Forces unit, its legend forged among the mayhem of World War Two. By Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

[gunswiththedutchman]

My stepfather ran an Army ESB landing craft during WW2 in the Pacific. He was following the landing craft ran by his best friend when it took a direct hit from a mortar right on the ramp. He steered around the wreckage and kept going as men called to him for help including the best friend who called him by name. He knew he couldn't stop as the Japanese had the spot zero'd in and they'd also get sunk or being already fully loaded the extra men would swamp them. He called out that he'd pick them up on the return trip. He tried but the sharks got there first. They gave him a Bronze Star but he refused to wear it.

[mmclaurin]

My grandpa had to use those gliders a couple times in Burma. He said it was the only time he was SURE he was going to die during the war. He said the entire idea sounded ludicrous when it was explained to everyone, and actually going through with it, TWICE, made him a better Catholic.

[sacradotjoannes]

I'm sure Paddy hated that order as much as his men!

[martinsnape]

Some very dark scenes in this and later episodes. The director touches on PTSD .

[stephfoxwell]

The largest amphibious landing of WW2. 160, 000 troops and 600 tanks on 26 beaches across 104 miles of coast.

[davidwhittington]

Operation Husky: Strong winds and green American pilots, contrived to take the aircraft off course with American force being scattered widely over south-east Sicily. By 14 July, half the U.S. paratroopers failed to reach their rallying points. The British air-landing troops fared little better, with only 12 of the 147 gliders landing on target and 69 crashing into the sea, with over 200 men drowning. Among those who landed in the sea were Major General George F. Hopkinson, commander of the British 1st Airborne Division, who, after several hours spent clutching a piece of wreckage, was eventually rescued by the landing ship HMS Keren.

[thomasmcclean]

What a man Paddy Mayne was, died in a car accident 1955.

[kevingetz]

Well that's a bollocks line. The gliders didn't fall short because of how they were constructed or manufactured. They fell short because of inexperienced tug pilots who released them early. The training had not reached the phase where glider pilots and tug pilots were stationed at the same aerodromes and airfields - thus allowing for the work relationship to foster and grow. Glider pilots also had less than 10 hours training time on the WACO, and about an hour of night flying. Chatterton made his opinions known to Hopkinson about the LZs, but Hopkinson (according to Chatterton) told him to essentially make it happen or he would be replaced.

[maxthecherryman]

WhoHo. There IS a second season. Roll on. Havnt seen it yet. Australia.

[TXdav]

I’m confused. Didn’t the series make it seem that SRS were going to be the first allied troops invading Europe? Weren’t the glider troops (the ones that reached land) first? Also, in the book the SRS did rescue some men at sea. I know this isn’t a historical lesson, but if they wanted to alter history couldn’t they at least use fictional names?

[TheJimbaHut]

You need more than 6 episodes in a season. I was just getting warmed up.

[AK_ASH]

0:18 I saw this rather large bloke as an extra in a couple of scenes. Your telling me they couldn't find an extra that could of actually looked trim enough to be an SAS member. He couldn't walk 10 miles by the looks of him nevermind run them.

[Titant]

The showrunners didn't put it in the scene, but the dead atracted sharks and they ate the living as well.

[Majorgamer]

It was heartbreaking when paddy ordered his men. Not to save them leaving them to drown into themselves in the water.

[leetester]

A friend of my family was one of the unfortunate paras who were dropped short by the Americans who panicked due to flack and released the gliders short. Luckily for Harry he was one of the few who were issued a life jacket due to his rank and when he was in the water he swam as far away from the other paras as he could because a few of the survivors wanted his vest. I believe everyone else in his glider drowned.

[Teh_Goat]

Series 1 was great but the writing for Series 2 is Shakespearean
I hope Rogue heroes gets a third series
There's so much more to tell

[harutogames]

That the dude who played louie zamparini?

[TomorowGames]

Kakashi Hatake would have found a way, he should have been there with paddy.

[aaronhall]

Am reaching out just been giving my grandfathers medals 1938-1945 he was Africa amd Italy airborne signals i have his military number he was a desert rat if anyone has access to history and great knowledge please can you find pictures or anything about him

[TellySavalas-orhf]

Hero with a capital H that was Paddy, But Joe Mann was a bigger hero.