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WAR AND SOLDIERS
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WILDERNESS RATS
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Allied leadership met in July 1945 in Berlin
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the last war conference.
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War in Nazi Germany against was over, and Japan also had almost beaten.
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Berlin was held on victory parade
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where the march of the British 7th armored division, Desert Rats.
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The parade was received by the division commander, Field Marshal Montgomery.
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This was the end point of Rats Desert long march.
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Their war had begun in Egypt and the Libyan desert in 1940.
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They progressed during the two and a half years of fighting in Tunisia.
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After Desert Rats were transferred across the Mediterranean to Italy.
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Eventually they landed in Normandy and proceeded to Germany.
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Now the fighters stood in Berlin
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boldly defy the enemy's capital city.
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7th armored division was set up in Egypt.
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1869 opened the Suez Canal
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considerably shortened the journey from the UK to India and the Far East
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and made Egypt a strategically important position.
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Egypt was in danger, the threat of war grew 30's.
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Benito Mussolini wanted to expand the Italian regions of Africa.
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It already dominated by Libya and areas of the Horn of Africa.
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Troops invaded Abyssinia in 1935.
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The Italians invaded the country quickly.
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Libya placed strong Italian forces were threatening Egypt.
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At the same time Hitler's armament and regional requirements
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forced the British to equip.
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They founded, inter alia, a motorized division to Egypt.
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It brought armored battle familiar with Major-General Percy Hobart.
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He created a year the unit who knew how to act in the desert.
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"Hobo" afoul with their managers before the summer of 1940
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and he was pressured to retire.
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But "Hobon" men are not forgotten what they have learned.
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The unit's name was changed to 7th armored division in February 1940.
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It became a symbol of the desert jumping rat
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and the current 7th armored brigade continues to recognize the value.
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It froze in the car the spotlight in the middle of the road.
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I saved the car tires
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and it has ever since been there.
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The unit was given the nickname PATCH Desert Rats
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which remained permanently in use.
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Division consisted of three parts.
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4th and 7th armored brigade had three Armor
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with a total of 150 armored cars and 12 cannon to reach the radiator.
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Kalustona oli Mark VI Lighteja.
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It was armed with a machine gun in intelligence wagon.
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The master Cruiser wagon was armor grenade launching cannon.
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The third part of the support unit, which consisted of two infantry battalions
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and 24 cannon artillery regiment.
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The inquiry took care of armored cars moving 11th Hussars.
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It remained part of the division throughout the war.
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Erämaarotissa was before the war, only professional soldiers
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who served at least six years.
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They saw themselves as a unit champion
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because this was the first British armored division.
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7th armored division organized into a war broke out, the fence
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which ensures began belonged to Italy to Libya.
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Egypt had only 30,000 Britons
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and Libya had 250,000 Italians.
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Mussolini remained nine months away from the war.
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Desert Rats received only watch Hitler's lightning war in Europe.
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Italy finally declared 10.6. 1940 War, Britain and France.
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Desert rats War began as soon as the next day.
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11th Hussars crossed the border and organized ambushes.
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More than 70 Italian was captured.
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Desert Rats did attack a few weeks of Italian stations
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while waiting for a superior enemy invasion to Egypt.
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Italian attack began on 13 September.
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Desert Rats went back, just in case
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but maintained a full-time martial touch.
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The Italians progressed 100 km side of Egypt and began to build the stations.
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Two weeks later, the British commander Archibald Wavell
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received a much-needed reinforcements.
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Britain was brought to 150 tanks.
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Wavell began to plan for the counterattack.
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Desert Rats, organized at the end of November exercise
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which in reality was only a dress rehearsal for an attack.
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The second "lesson" ryhmityttiin starting positions
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but it was revealed only at the beginning of the attack December 9.
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British mood was despite the shorthanded good
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because the Italians do not even want to go.
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Matilda chariots equipped with a 7 Regiment and the 4th Indian Division
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who formed the western desert army
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beat the Italians easily and proceeded along the coast.
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Desert Rats were protected by the desert-hand side flank.
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Egypt is no longer 20, 12 had other living Italian as prisoners.
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Wavell took the Indians in East Africa, to destroy the Italian settlements.
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In its place came the Australian 6th Division
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who continued to attack and captured Bardia and Tobruk ports.
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The Italians retreated along the coast to Benghazi
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Libyan Cyrenaica province's capital.
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The Force Commander, Gen. Dick O'Connor
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sent Desert Rats surpass Cyrenaica peninsula in the south part.
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4. armored brigade marched very difficult terrain
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to break the Italian vetäytymisreitin south.
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Beda Fommissa held a three-day battle
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where the Italian 10th Army was destroyed once and for all.
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3000 Erämaarottaa received 20,000 prisoners
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as well as vehicles, tanks, guns and other equipment.
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Home Front rejoiced first victory with Respect.
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Stories Desert rats performance created a reputation of the unit.
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Foreign Minister Anthony Eden thanked them for Churchill paraphrase the words:
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"Never have so many been surrendered so few."
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Jubilation was short-lived, as the war there appeared a new factor.
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Hitler sent General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korpsin Libya.
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In front was a harsh confrontation between two committees set of
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which surged back and forth in a large theater of war for more than two years.
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Afrika Korpsin prepares for battle
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Desert Rats were returned to Egypt to seek additions.
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In its place came just in Britain imported 2nd armored division.
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But part of it transferred to Greece.
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Who Kyrenaikaan Department declined significantly.
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Rommel seized the opportunity. He was attacked in March 1941
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and quickly pushed the Britons back to Egypt.
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Australialaisten miehittämä Tobruk
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was the only British beachhead.
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It was besieged tightly.
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Desert Rats were returned to the front in the summer of 1941
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and met for the first time the German kammotun 88 millimeter cannon PST.
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It was able to destroy any British wagon 1800 m away.
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The wagons weapons did not charge so far.
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Two counterattack resulted in heavy losses.
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Wavellin was replaced in July by General Claude Auchinleck.
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He did not want to attack against Rommel
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before the designated 8th army department confirmed.
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It was a genuine Empire army
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which were men from Australia, South Africa and India.
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It also included a free French brigade ...
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... And spaced Tobruk Poles.
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7th armored division, Desert Rats, was still in the army core.
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Favorite name is often used throughout the international 8th Army.
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The War had developed their own routines.
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Carriages were a kind of a camp for the night.
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It was divided into the following day's commandments.
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With a supply imported vehicles with fuel and ammunition.
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Men ate and serviced the equipment.
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Then they got to sleep as much as you have time to watch the evening shift.
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All rose hours before dawn.
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At daybreak carriages were already in position.
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The battle was very rarely
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and the Desert Rats were waiting for the day the enemy's movements.
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In the desert orienteering aurinkokompassilla.
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The direction was calculated from the map and set the compass
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and distance traveled were considered a vehicle odometer.
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During the day, the wagon deck could easily fry the eggs
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as men on both sides did.
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Sometimes the landscape was covered in sand storm.
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The sand penetrated everywhere.
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Desert Rats were completely dependent on their vehicles.
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Water was rationed, and frequently the water was poured chillers.
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Food was canned. Fresh bread or vegetables were a luxury.
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The food was monotonous. Desert Rat mostly drank tea.
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Carriages drove back to camp until nightfall.
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Desert Rat thanked his luck if he was allowed to sleep for four hours.
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The soldiers were still in good health and good mood.
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Desert War was a luster that other fronts missing
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served as the 7th armored division Marshal Carver says:
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It was much "cleaner" war.
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There were no residents who would be affected.
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Really dangerous and scary situations were quite rare.
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And even though life was heavy between them
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it was accompanied by a sense of good comrades even pleasant.
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We experienced are doing very important work, which required all our time.
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It was a purely military war
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On the vast battlefields were not civilians or other obstacles.
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Auchinleck launched an offensive 18/11/1941.
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Its aim was to relieve Tobruk and Rommel evict Cyrenaica.
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7th armored division fought in Sidi Rizeghin airport
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about 40 km south-east of Tobruk.
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It is one of the largest wilderness in rats battles.
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The unit earned 21 11. As many as three Victorian clubs.
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One of them received the Brigadier Jock Campbell
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which led to full-time armor convertible.
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He died three months after a car accident.
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Lieutenant George Gunn led to four pts cannon division.
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Against it attacked 60 tanks.
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He continued firing until the last cannon crash.
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Rifle Male John Beeley crashed
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they captured alone in his company have restrained PST cannon.
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Tobruk defenders finally reached an attacker creates.
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8. The army was again evicted the enemy Cyrenaica.
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But the enemy had not been beaten, and the desert war continued.
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Rommel attacked in January 1942 and drove the British Gazalan updated.
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Each side was preparing invasion
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but Rommel got there first and circled the defense at the end of May.
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British carriages were scattered and unable to defend themselves.
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General Messervy was captured in command in place
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but escaped and returned to his division commander.
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June saw a lot of armored battles and withdrawals
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when Rommel pushed forward.
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Tobruk was lost, and the 8th Army withdrew from El Alamein
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the last defensive position before the Suez Canal.
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Rommel attacked 1.7. but could not get through the lines.
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British counter-attack also failed
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and each party was completely exhausted at the end of the month.
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Winston Churchill visited in August brave 8th Army's house.
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He brought a new supreme commander, Harold Alexander
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and Commander Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army.
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Montgomery was a dynamic leader who is not hiding husbands.
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He began to restore the 8 army of self-confidence
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and declares that the Afrika Korps was defeated.
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Desert rats organization and equipment were significantly changed.
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Still had two armored brigades, 4 and 22.
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but the infantry was now a full brigade, 131 Queen's.
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Division had received two new American wagon models.
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Grant's body was a 75 millimeter and 37 millimeter cannon tower.
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Sherman was a 75 millimeter cannon.
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They pulled compares to the German wagons
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arms, but the range was still less than 88 s.
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Rommel attacked again El Alamein in August 1942.
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Montgomery had prepared for it.
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Experienced Pip Roberts commanded a tank brigade 22
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rejected the German päähyökkäys wedge and destroyed about 40 wagons.
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Desert Rats distinguished again and reaped more fame.
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Monty now going to move to the offensive. He had the overwhelming
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but the enemy was in our strong positions that have not been able to get around
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Qattara lowlands through difficult terrain.
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Through Rommel lines was achieved. It knew the work Erämaarotille.
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When the Dark 23 October 1942
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Desert Rats, and the entire 8th Army were preparing for battle.
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Montgomery's attack began 900 cannon centering.
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The pioneers paved the way through the minefields.
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Infantry seized bridgeheads minefields behind.
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Tanks were able to battle through the fifth day.
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The enemy was persistent, and Desert Rats were unable to break through.
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Pst German cannons did evil in the trace. Former leader of the caravan, says:
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It felt a hard jolt,
and the wagon caught fire.
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Komensin men out,
and maastouduimme the sand.
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We, but the crest
was able to get only one trolley
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and even burned.
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We went to the crew creates.
We had a total of 9.
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We saw that one of
our caravans left to withdraw.
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We looked after it, and someone
said: "The taxis took scram."
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This situation was repeated many times
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until Montgomery shifted the focus to the north.
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Rommel defense crumbled gradually.
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The enemy retreated 4. 11 already at full blast.
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Churchill was glad "This is the end of the beginning."
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8. Army drove the enemy from behind 2.5 months.
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Desert Rats were often at the forefront.
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They drove 19 11. Benghazi, which is 720 km from El Alamein.
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Rommel held a delaying battles from time to time
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who kept Britons away from the safe.
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Desert Rats rolled into the still in Tripoli on 23 january 1943
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after propagating over 1600 km in 11 weeks.
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Great British flag fluttered in port
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through which the archenemy Afrika Korps had arrived in theater of war.
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More than two years in the desert fluctuated war had finally ended.
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Montgomery came to a halt after the victory parade.
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His supply lines were stretched too long.
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8. The army did not have to worry about a strong counterattack.
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Rommel had in fact encountered a problem
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which forced him to retreat to Tunisia.
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The British and the Americans had risen to 11. 8. 1942 countries
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Morocco and Algeria.
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They proceeded to Tunisia to face the troops
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who had been sent to protect against Rommel my back.
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The Allies were stopped 32 km from Tunis.
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Stalemate continued until February 1943
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when the Axis went on the offensive in Western Tunisia.
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The attack came as a surprise and caused huge losses to the Americans.
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Montgomery invaded from the east to Tunisia.
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Rommel turned the fight on 8 army.
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His armor met the Medenine 6.3.
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Desert rats Queen's Brigade PST guns
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did the hardest work towards stopping.
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Sergeant Cranglesin cannon destroyed the entire 14 wagons.
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1. The army was advancing from the west and the 8th Army coastal plain.
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It destroyed the enemy positions Marethissa and Wadi Akaritissa.
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Desert Rats met March 1st Army.
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Americans was fascinating to meet men of the famous unit
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which American cigarettes and food were a refreshing change.
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Desert Rats were completely different from those of the British 1st Army
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which were clean and followed closely statute.
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They watched in amazement Desert Rats
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which dented vehicles, tan and miscellaneous clothes
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brought to mind primarily mustalaisjoukkion.
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8. The army camped Enfidavilleen coastal plains
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and was ordered to support the 1st Army a decisive attack.
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7th armored division advanced to the attack at the tip of Tunis.
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Be the first to Tripoli driven 11 Hussars
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drove the first in the Tunisian capital.
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Axis North African troops surrendered 11.5. 1943
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and the Allies were 250,000 prisoners of war.
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Desert Rats interested in the men of the German Afrika Korpsin
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who were more than two years have been their opponents.
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During the respite from the Desert Rats were reorganized
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in accordance with the lessons learned.
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22 armored brigade had 150 cars and motorized battalion.
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Queen's consisted of three motorized battalions
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as well as a machine gun battalion.
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Desert Rats also have time to relax and rest.
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They got even on vacation to Cairo
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but home country reached only by those who were transferred to trainers.
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King George VI visited in June Division
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to greet the prestigious group of departments.
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This victory was a turning point in the Desert rats story.
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They went for the first time in North Africa
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and well above the Mediterranean countries to embark in Italy.
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8. The army was supposed to land at the southern tip of Italy
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and Mark Clark commanded the US 5th Army attacked Salerno.
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Desert Rats were separated by 8 the army to support the Americans.
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Landings tip encountered strong German resistance.
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Queen's brigade units received division that assembly area.
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Desert rats carriages drove ashore landing on the fifth day.
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Then they went out of it towards Naples.
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The terrain was mountainous, and the Germans used it to their advantage.
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They blasted through the winding slopes of roads and bridges.
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The desert was no room for learned in the fast trip to NW.
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Patience and resourcefulness replaced them.
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Naples was reached despite everything, October 1.
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Proceeding farther north got stuck in the mud of autumn.
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On the way there were many rivers.
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The majority of the division was transferred to the reserve in November 1943.
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Montgomery went to Western Europe from attacking the 21st Army Group.
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He had to farewell their husbands.
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What I would say to you now,
when I go away?
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This heavy heart
is not easy to talk to.
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I say this: you did this
from the army, as it is.
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You made
its name world famous
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and that is why you have to keep
its reputation and tradition above.
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But some went to Montgomery, the
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because he wanted to hold three division champion trap.
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They were 51. Highland, 50. Northumbria, and Desert Rats.
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They came to England in January 1944.
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Desert Rats had been away four years
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but the holiday did not have time.
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They had to start preparing the Normandy landings increase.
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The division ID reformed.
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The new rat received a longer tail.
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It also has a modern Desert rats, 7th armored brigade, ID.
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Montgomery was still desert rats supreme commander
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and he was always a welcome guest.
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Division moved to the end of May to the south coast guarded the camp.
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Civilians must not talk with the soldiers!
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There it heard the mission disembarkation.
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Vehicles were loaded on ships
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who brought them across the English Channel.
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Desert Rats were not included in the first wave.
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They came ashore days later and drove immediately to battle.
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They rejected the German armor companies to destroy amphibious forces.
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Desert rats was once again get used to the new terrain.
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Normandy narrow roads, high hedges and small open fields
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helped considerably the German defenses.
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Frequently ambushed and shot from very close 88 millimeter cannon
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there was still more dangerous than the desert.
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Also, the Tiger tank was a formidable weapon.
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Even the 88 mm cannon
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and its frontal took any by enemy fire.
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Normandy had good sides.
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Desert Rats look back warmly region of Calvados and Camembert.
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Division participated in Operation Goodwood in July
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on the east side armor attack of Caen.
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It was supposed to attract the German armor of the British section
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so that Americans got it.
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RAF prepared a severe bombing attack.
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At first all went well.
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Typerryttämät bombing the Germans surrendered.
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But the enemy recovered quickly and stopped the attack.
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The Americans still made a breakthrough.
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The German defense crumbled
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and the General George Patton's 3rd Army broke through the lines.
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This was the beginning guarantees driving, which resembled the progress of the Desert rats in Libya.
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7th armored division crossed the Seine 28.8.
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has proceeded about 200 kilometers.
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After 9 days, it freed Ghent city 320 km away from Belgium.
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Victory seemed to be within reach.
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Allied progress in France and Belgium in 1944
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maintenance of the route from the port of Cherbourg made increasingly longer.
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In the end, it was cut off completely, and the progression towards Germany came to a halt.
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Proceeded to Holland Desert Rats had for some time status of the war.
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7th armored division, who issued the onset of winter
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but the defenseman was assembled ranks, and progress was slow.
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Some of the Erämaarotista got Christmas holiday, but most remained in front.
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End of the war was nevertheless close
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and the Desert rats a long march be forgotten.
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On Christmas Day, Corporal Bob Pass, El Alamein veteran
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was chosen to read Christmas greetings BBC.
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Home Our journey began on
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North Africa across Tunis
, and across the sea to Italy.
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It was a hard journey,
which continues today.
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We visited at home preparing for
another journey across the sea.
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We traveled toward home
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Normandy, France, Belgium,
the Netherlands and finally through Germany.
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Has been a long march.
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Pass crashed a couple of weeks later,
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Entering the take against an enemy surrender.
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The last step in the wilderness of rats story began in January 1945.
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Division cleared the tough battles with the route of the Rhine
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and then preparing to cross this last natural barrier.
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It took place on 24 March.
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Since then, the division took it northeast of the German crack.
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It often encountered Germans, who do not yet believe in defeat.
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But the 7th armored division did not stop there.
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Desert Rats extricated 16.4. Fallingbostel close the prison camp.
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There had previously been captured by the division's men missed
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who fought both in Arnhem and in France in 1940 veterans.
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Germany's main port, Hamburg, surrendered Erämaarotille 3 May.
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From there, the division continued north towards languages.
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On the way Desert Rats were forced to protect their enemy embassy
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who negotiated with Montgomery's capitulation.
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Antautumispaperi was 4.5. The fighting ended 7.5.
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But the Desert rats journey had not yet expired.
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The unit served as an occupying force
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and then moved to Berlin in the British zone of the garrison.
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General Lou Lyne took 4.7. to move against the troops.
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The unit celebrated 21.7. a parade in its history uljainta days.
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Victory march was received by Churchill, Alexander and Montgomery.
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Churchill spoke of divisions:
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"Do not ever glory kalvetko, do not let your wreath of victory fade away."
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"Let the glorious ways, El Alamein in Berlin is forgotten."
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"Military History can not be found marssillenne compare."
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It was a befitting tribute to fighters
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which personified the best of the British armed forces.
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Translated by: Kai Laine www.sdi media.com
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