Secret WW2

”SAS: The Real Blair Paddy Mayne” is a new podcast series produced by BBC Radio Ulster ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g2rw "Tales in making a sporting soldier...Blair Mayne floored his own boxing coach at Queen’s University in Belfast, shot a springbok on the 1938 British & Irish Lions tour, and later stood sharp as a solicitor. The life of this Newtownards war hero was built for the big screen, but did they get it right? Soft-spoken leader of men, or natural born hell raiser? We find out about the Real Blair 'Paddy' Mayne."

“This is – they tell you in Tempsford – where Boudicca rallied against the Romans. Where the early English kings fought off the Danes and where Churchill launched secret flights to aid resistance fighters keeping the Nazis at bay. “But the historic earthworks, wheatfields and RAF base of Tempsford may yet prove no match for a chancellor bent on housebuilding and growth, armed with thinktank reports and a 10-year infrastructure strategy …”

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"The relatives of Britain’s secret agent heroes in Burma have gathered to mark 80 years since the brutal campaign. The actions of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were crucial to ending the Second World War, with one expert saying without them, the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would not have succeeded in bringing Japan to surrender. "The Burma campaign, thousands of miles from the Western front, became known as the Forgotten War. But in central London, almost 60 relatives of the SOE mustered to ensure the actions of their loved ones deep behind enemy lines in some of the harshest conditions of the Second World War are never forgotten. The event was the first time relatives from all SOE operations in Burma, which is officially known today as Myanmar, have formally gathered …”

Praise indeed …