May 17, 2012 by BritishForcesNews
The daring special forces mission to go deep into enemy territory in Iraq during the second Gulf war has been told for the first time by one of the men in command on the ground.
Captain David Blakeley led eight men, on a task to seize an airfield ahead of a much larger deployment but it turned into a fight for their lives when alone and unsupported they had to evade two thousand enemy forces.
David Blakeley has been talking to British Forces News about his new book Pathfinder.
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