Sadler was from Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and while the L.R.D.G. find their way over the vast, unmapped Libyan desert, as his unit did in real life. appear in the television series, in the real-life character of navigator Mike Sadler, who helps the S.A.S. With a close connection to the New Zealand Division, the Group worked alongside the ‘rogues’ on occasion and has been called ‘the brains behind the S.A.S. It was the Long Range Desert Group (above), which formed in June 1940. The television series charts the regiment’s formation in North Africa, and covers several of their actual raids on German and Italian installations and airfields (all set to an AC/DC rock and roll soundtrack.) But the subject of this blog is another military unit that pre-dated the “Rogue Heroes” by 18 months. Viewers of the 2022 BBC drama series “Rogue Heroes” (seen below), might be thinking of the Special Air Service or S.A.S.
Men and vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group on patrol, 1941.
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