The wind had reached gale-force as the five elderly Bristol Bombay transport aircraft neared their target, bucking in the storm and threatening to flip over.
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That boy Stirling is mad, quite mad. That was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery s verdict on the maverick officer David Stirling (pictured), after he came looking to recruit Monty s best men.
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