The Northern Irish SAS Founder Who Slaughtered The SS Across France After They Murdered His Men
#PaddyMayne #SAS #WW2 When Lieutenant Tomos Stephens was beaten to death with a rifle butt on a forest road in central France in July 1944, his commanding officer wrote a single word next to his name in the regimental war diary: "Owed." Ten months later, that same officer would drive a Willys jeep three times through German machine-gun fire on a country road in Lower Saxony, carrying wounded men out of a ditch on his shoulders one by one. He would be recommended for the Victoria Cross. He would be denied it. And in the back of his jeep, in a locked despatch box, he would mark another name off in pencil. His name was Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne. By the end of the war, he had marked 52 of the 62 names in his diary. This documentary tells the untold story of Operation Howard and the quiet, lawyer's accounting of one of the most ruthless and disciplined commanders in British military history. The man who carried, for ten months, the names of his murdered men in a wooden ammunition crate under his camp bed and then collected what they were owed across five weeks of jeep-borne fighting through the wet hedgerows of northern Germany in the spring of 1945. 🔥 In this video: The Bulbasket Massacre: Why 31 SAS men were executed under Hitler's Commando Order at Saint-Sauvant Forest. The Diary: The pencil marks in the margins that became the only complete record of Mayne's reckoning. The Loyton Killings: The 31 men murdered at Schirmeck, Natzweiler-Struthof, and the Erlich quarry. The Lorup Action: The three runs through machine-gun fire that should have earned the VC. Halverde: The quarry incident that no one in the column would ever speak about. The Question Mark: The one name Mayne never marked, and the reason why. Sources of Where I get my facts: Bradford, R. and Dillon, M. (1987) *Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend*. London: John Murray. Kemp, A. (1991) *The SAS at War 1941-1945*. London: John Murray. Mortimer, G. (2004) *Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the SAS in World War II*. London: Cassell. Ross, H. (2003) *Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair "Paddy" Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment*. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. Wynn, S. (2017) *SAS Operation Bulbasket: Behind the Lines in Occupied France 1944*. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes. #PaddyMayne #SAS #WW2 #SpecialForces #OperationHoward #BlairMayne #MilitaryHistory #BritishSAS #OperationBulbasket #OperationLoyton
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