Rats of Tobruk

With Anzac Day only a few days away, it’s worth celebrating one of the last WW2 heroes.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/don-t-make-me-a-[quote][/QUOTE]martyr-says-last-surviving-australian-rat-of-tobruk-20230420-p5d207.html

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The saga of the Rats is extraordinary, perhaps the greatest in Australia’s military history. In April 1941, the situation was more than merely grim for the Allies. The forces of Adolf Hitler had already rolled through continental Europe, knocking over every army that opposed it. Using the tactic of blitzkrieg – lightning offensive movement by land and air, using artillery, infantry, tanks and planes to break through enemy weak points and sow havoc – they seemed unstoppable. When Italy joined the war on the side of the Germans in June 1940, Mussolini’s forces in North Africa threatened the Suez Canal and Australian forces were dispatched to secure the key Italian-held port of Tobruk in Libya to deny the Axis forces an obvious supply point in any mass eastern sweep to Egypt.

It will be a very sad day when we farewell the last WW2 veteran.

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