But we managed to kind of decipher certain messages and we were almost sure that Bravo Two Zero was in trouble and that some guys had possibly died that evening. Probably the hardest thing was one evening when we were on the ground, having trouble sending messages over on the radio. One of those questions, and the next one I ask Des, is naming the most challenging moment his team experienced on the ground. Just that was amazing – it made the story stand out.Īnd generate a lot of questions about the mission and what happened to the other two patrols, knowing the ill-fated Bravo Two patrol story. I never knew there were two other Bravo – B Squadron – patrols, Bravo One and Bravo Three. I’d always known of the Bravo Two Zero patrol – it’s a famous SAS mission. Was I willing? And that is really how it came about.Īnd as Damien mentioned, when I heard he was on the Bravo Three Zero patrol, the sister patrol to the famous one, I was hooked. Damien approached me and said that he’d like to write the story. And then one day Paul said we’re going to have a meeting with Damien Lewis, and I said, who is Damien Lewis? When we met it, Damien said that the story was interesting because he didn’t know that there were three patrols, Bravo One, Two and Three. He got in touch with Damien and mentioned to Damien about me. He was talking to me one day in his garden and he asked me, what have you been involved in? I only just managed to mention Bravo 30 and I didn’t even tell him the story. A guy named Paul Hughes introduced Damien and me.

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