SAS soldier recalls his epic 110 mile desert trek after Rommel's Afrika Korps captured the rest of his group
Major Willis Michael Sadler's epic journey is part of the series of heroic exploits that have been revealed in the SAS War Diary. One of a handful of surviving original SAS men, Maj Sadler, was navigator for the regiment's raiding columns. In 1943, he was driven to the brink of death when a column led by Stirling set out to link up with the American forces in Tunisia. Driving for hundreds of miles a day and night, the exhausted column got through the Gabès Gap on the Tunisian coast and hid in a narrow wadi. But the men had been seen by Afrika Korps troops, who waited for nightfall then sealed off the wadi entrance with an armoured car and moved in. Somehow, Sadler and another SAS soldier, managed to get away only to face an extreme desert trek to safety.
(telegraph.co.uk)
Major Willis Michael Sadler's epic journey is part of the series of heroic exploits that have been revealed in the SAS War Diary. One of a handful of surviving original SAS men, Maj Sadler, was navigator for the regiment's raiding columns. In 1943, he was driven to the brink of death when a column led by Stirling set out to link up with the American forces in Tunisia. Driving for hundreds of miles a day and night, the exhausted column got through the Gabès Gap on the Tunisian coast and hid in a narrow wadi. But the men had been seen by Afrika Korps troops, who waited for nightfall then sealed off the wadi entrance with an armoured car and moved in. Somehow, Sadler and another SAS soldier, managed to get away only to face an extreme desert trek to safety.
(telegraph.co.uk)
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