{"id":48483,"date":"2019-05-23T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48483"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:59:28","slug":"the-early-days-of-the-s-a-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/23\/the-early-days-of-the-s-a-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The early days of the S.A.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLtfJ0ekqVE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 31 Oct 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s most famous regiments was nearly disbanded after one disastrous mission.<br \/>\nSupport me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I forgot to say that David Stirling was twenty-five years old when recovering from his injury and dreaming up the future SAS. Within two years, all the major airfields within 300 miles of the front had been raided by the SAS, some of them up to four times.<\/p>\n<p>The camouflage used on the vehicles of the LRDG, and later the SAS, was rose pink and olive green, and by all accounts it worked very well.<\/p>\n<p>Main sources: <em>SAS Rogue Heroes<\/em> by Ben Macintyre, <em>Eastern Approaches<\/em> by Fitzroy Maclean.<\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Follow me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige<\/a>  I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published on 31 Oct 2017 One of the world&#8217;s most famous regiments was nearly disbanded after one disastrous mission. Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige I forgot to say that David Stirling was twenty-five years old when recovering from his injury and dreaming up the future SAS. Within two years, all the major airfields within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,4,7,370,5,230],"tags":[1398,1222,690],"class_list":["post-48483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-britain","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-ww2","tag-lindybeige","tag-northafrica","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cBZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48484,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48483\/revisions\/48484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}