![]() When Paddy heard the wireless reports of Rommel’s counter-attack he grew more disgruntled than ever. Sergeant Bennett wrote that “the session would go on until Paddy would look at his watch and say, ‘Call me sir. He could be tremendously convivial when he was so inclined, and might stay up late laughing and talking and drinking. Sometimes he would hardly speak for days at other times he would emerge and join the sergeants at the bar. He then settled down with a series of Penguins. It was six feet wide with a base made out of barrels and covered with the large stuffed mats used to break practice parachute falls. The more he thought about it the more convinced he was that he was being treated unfairly.Ī few days after David’s departure he detailed one of the sergeants to see that the newcomers were put through their paces properly, and went to bed. and it made him more frantic than ever to get into action. He was deeply distressed by the fact that his friend, McGonigal had not been heard of since the first disastrous S.A.S. ![]() He had tried to do as David had instructed and supervise the training of the new recruits, but every time he thought of the raiding party, far away from red tape and boring organisation details, having the supreme pleasure of coming into contact with the enemy, his resentment rose. ![]() DAVID RETURNED to the base at Kabrit to find that Paddy Mayne had built himself a giant bed and retired to it.
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