Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 257William Blackwood, 1945 - England |
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Page 196
... morning of 30th May 1942 by an armoured column of the 21st Panzer Division . Those were depressing days for our forces in the desert . We were short of everything except food , and the German regarded us with a good deal of scorn : he ...
... morning of 30th May 1942 by an armoured column of the 21st Panzer Division . Those were depressing days for our forces in the desert . We were short of everything except food , and the German regarded us with a good deal of scorn : he ...
Page 332
... morning . After a headlong dash we had just time to tumble our belongings into the second of the two drifters before she left the quayside . The party - over a hundred strong - were in fact awaiting the arrival of a British destroyer ...
... morning . After a headlong dash we had just time to tumble our belongings into the second of the two drifters before she left the quayside . The party - over a hundred strong - were in fact awaiting the arrival of a British destroyer ...
Page 400
... morning and made an early start in its preparation , but even this modest ambition was frus- trated and our fire and cooking - pot abandoned , so suddenly did the order come for us to move into position . From tank crew to tank crew the ...
... morning and made an early start in its preparation , but even this modest ambition was frus- trated and our fire and cooking - pot abandoned , so suddenly did the order come for us to move into position . From tank crew to tank crew the ...
Contents
A COLONEL OF THE FRONTIER FORCE BY LIEUT COLONEL | 73 |
AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH THE EIGHTH ARMYI XII | 91 |
SIC TRANSIT BY A M G | 108 |
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