LONDON -- Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces, a disaster which might upset the United Nations' whole war strategy ...
The following forms part of an account written by my father (Laurence Coates)shortly before his death in 1981. On the nineteenth of June, I was doing a spell of duty on guard. All was very quiet. In ...
Then the thanks they got from home: white feathers. All these years later, the injustice of it still animates Mr Wallace, 96, one of the last men standing among the fabled Rats of Tobruk. This is the ...
On Sunday about 14th June 1942 we were ordered to pull back to El Alamein. Everyone was quickly loaded onto their three ton trucks and they set off east. We joined the stream of vehicles heading east ...
On Sunday about 14th June 1942 we were ordered to pull back to El Alamein. Everyone was quickly loaded onto their three ton trucks and they set off east. We joined the stream of vehicles heading east ...
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