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Archibald David Stirling (Lecropt, Perthshire; 15 de noviembre de 1915-Westminster, Londres; 4 de noviembre de 1990), fue un oficial del ejército británico, montañero, activista, aristócrata escocés y fundador del Servicio Aéreo Especial (SAS por sus siglas en inglés).
Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS). Under his leadership, the SAS carried out hit-and-run raids behind the Axis lines of the North African campaign.
David Stirling, British army officer who founded and led the elite British Special Air Service (SAS) regiment during World War II. Formed with just 6 officers and 60 enlisted men, the SAS used the vast desert as cover to inflict serious damage against the forces of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Colonel David Stirling was a pioneer of British Special Forces. In 1941, he founded the Special Air Service (SAS) in Egypt to undertake small-scale raids behind enemy lines.
27 de nov. de 2022 · Stirling was an eccentric dreamer who had gone to Paris to become an artist while also hoping to be the first man to climb Mount Everest. He joined the Scots Guards at the...
15 de jun. de 2023 · Mike Sadler is one of a handful of surviving original SAS men. Major Sadler, 93, was the navigator for the regiment’s founder David Stirling, guiding raiding columns for hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa.
26 de oct. de 2022 · Who was David Stirling? Bridge of Allan-born David Stirling was a Scots aristocrat, mountaineer, and cowboy who dropped out of Cambridge University to be an artist in Paris, later joining the Scots Guards.
