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Creating the SAS

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We are joined by John Lewes, nephew and biographer of Jock Lewes, to talk about how his uncle helped found one of the world’s most famous special forces during World War Two Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The context was that no real big successes were happening in the desert in 1940 to 41,

0:53.4

until, in a sense, groups like the SAS got going.

1:05.3

Now, it's no small achievement that the SAS could destroy the equivalent of half what the entire Royal Air Force could destroy on a good day.

1:10.4

That was John Lewis talking about the SAS's impact on the Second World War.

1:25.0

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