Between December 1941 and January 1943, a unit of fewer than a hundred men was credited with destroying more Axis aircraft on the ground in North Africa than the entire Desert Air Force shot down in the air. This is the true story of how David Stirling founded the SAS from a hospital bed in Alexandria, how Jock Lewes built the one pound bomb the ordnance experts said was impossible, and how Paddy Mayne turned a five man raiding party into the most effective airfield weapon of the desert war. We follow the SAS from the disaster of its first parachute drop during Operation Crusader, through the partnership with Ralph Bagnold's Long Range Desert Group, to the jeep raid on Sidi Haneish in July 1942, when eighteen Willys jeeps armed with Vickers K guns drove onto a lit Luftwaffe airfield and left nearly forty aircraft burning. Along the way we examine why the German and Italian air forces never expected an attack from the empty desert to the south, why Rommel later wrote that this small British unit had caused him more damage than any other of its size, and why Britain's tolerance for private armies produced something the Wehrmacht's command structure could not. Every figure in this documentary is checked against the raiders' own reports, Rommel's published papers, and the historians who have compared those claims with surviving Axis records, and where the sources disagree we tell you. A WW2 history documentary on the origins of the Special Air Service, the Long Range Desert Group, the Lewes bomb, Operation Squatter, the raids on Tamet and Agedabia, Operation Bigamy, Hitler's Commando Order, and the capture of David Stirling in Tunisia.