Damien Lewis

the job of keeping him operational by killing the pain, but he's also keeping the secret that the commanding officer of the patrol is injured.

So when they fly in on this mission, Operation Speedwell, and they're deploying down 800 kilometres north of Rome, they are a long way from home.

And bear in mind, during the briefing, it ends and one of them says, well, OK, yeah, we get it.

We're going in to blow up enemy trains in tunnels.

That's all fine.

But how do we get back again?

And they're told, well, that's up to you.

So they've been dropped 800 kilometers north of Rome with no radio.

They've got no way of making comms with headquarters and no plans to get them out again.

They've just got to find a way or make one.

Anyway, the point is they fly in to deploy at night.

And Hugh Pinkney, their commander, typically is the first out of the aircraft.

And as he jumps, no one would imagine that he's as badly injured as he is because he leaps out of the aircraft as if there was everything to play for.

And, you know, that's the start of this mission on which they are extremely successful.

You know, Pinckney himself, tragically, is never found after the jump.

The men can't locate him, can't find him, much that they search and call his name.

And obviously Horace Stokes is missing.

is convinced that he's had an accident upon landing because of injured back.

He's died or he's completely incapacitated.

But they can't keep searching for him because they've been seen during the parachute drop and the enemy are already hunting for them.