BLAIR ‘PADDY’ MAYNE, DSO AND THREE BARS
Nov 29, 2018
2 minutes
The men of the Special Air Service knew they were in for a fight when they drove into northern Germany in the second week of April 1945. Their operation, code-named Howard, was to provide reconnaissance for the Fourth Canadian Armoured Division as they advanced on the medieval city of Oldenburg. But waiting for them, concealed in the hedgerows and woods,
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