Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War (17 page)

The desert wind made controlling the parachute after landing a tricky task.

Recruits were required to practice jumping from a rickety thirty-foot platform.

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Jock Lewes (right) preparing to jump from a Bristol Bombay transport plane.

A recruit to L Detachment SAS jumps into the desert during parachute training.

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Eoin McGonigal

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Blair “Paddy” Mayne

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Fitzroy Maclean

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George Jellicoe

Johnny Cooper

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Malcolm Pleydell

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Bill Fraser

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Fraser McLuskey

Jim Almonds

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Randolph Churchill