Founded by David Sterling during the Second World War, the Special Air Service or S.A.S. was a British Army unit. Ulsterman Paddy Mayne took command in 1943.
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Corporal George Robinson of Portadown, Co. Armagh was captured while serving in 2nd Battalion, Special Air Service during Operation LOYTON in France in 1944.
Born in Newtownards, Co. Down, Paddy Mayne was a poetry lover, a pack powerhouse, a paratrooper, and a founding member of the Special Air Service in 1941.
