Forgotten SAS Diary Reveals Mission to Capture Rommel
3rd October 2011
The diary was put together by a former SAS soldier shortly after the original regiment was disbanded in 1945. He preserved as much documentation as he could, compiling a scrapbook of photographs, operational orders and afteraction reports from its origins in North Africa through Italy, France and the drive on Berlin.
The diary, which weighs 25lb and was bound in leather “liberated” from the Nazis, was locked away for half a century with no one aware of its existence. Shortly before the unnamed soldier’s death a decade ago he handed it over the SAS Regimental Association.