Editing David Stirling (section)

===Capture by Germans===
These [[Hit-and-run tactics|hit-and-run]] operations eventually proved Stirling's undoing; he was captured during one in Tunisia<ref name="auto"/> by the Germans in January 1943 having been dubbed "The Phantom Major" by Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Alleyne |first=Richard |date=19 February 2007 |title=SAS founder's life story to be made into a film |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543115/SAS-founders-life-story-to-be-made-into-a-film.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref> Although Stirling escaped from the Germans, he was subsequently re-captured by the Italian [[Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Monferrato" (13th)|III Armored Group "Cavalleggeri di Monferrato"]] and the Italians took great delight in the embarrassment this caused their German allies.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/06/obituaries/sir-david-stirling-74-the-founder-of-britain-s-elite-commando-unit.html |title=Sir David Stirling, 74, the Founder of Britain's Elite Commando Unit |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=6 November 1990 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Stirling|title=Sir David Stirling {{!}} British officer|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2017-02-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Stirling, Sir (Archibald) David (1915–1990)|last=Mclean|first=Fitzroy|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004}}</ref> He made four further escape attempts, before he was sent to [[Colditz Castle]], where he remained as a prisoner for the rest of the war.<ref name="britannica.com" /> He arrived on 20 August 1944 and was given the task of setting up the Colditz British Intelligence Unit by a Stay-Behind Order ([[Stay-behind|SBO]]) which was in place in the area.<ref name="Colditz">{{cite book|last1= Reid |first1=P.R.|title=Colditz, The Full Story|date=1984 |pages=258–262 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-00578-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/colditzfullstory00reid}}</ref> Following Stirling's capture, [[Paddy Mayne]] took command of the SAS.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Mayne, Robert Blair (1915–1955)|last=Jellicoe|first=George|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref>