The Desert Riders (Part 1/5)

Dangerous Missions - The Desert Riders (Part 1 of 5)

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• Desert
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[MikeCurtisCQB]

Thank you very much, read a great book recently about the LRDG in North Africa in WW2. cheers mate :P

[zxwar]

TQ Mike :)

[Ubaldo421]

@KSudbury The best fighter in North Africa during W.W.II were italian special tropps "Giovani Fascisti " ("Mussolini's boys") and italian paratrooper FOLGORE DIVISION AIRBORNE. If you well read Chrchill memory about North Africa front you'll understand why...The desert Riders (LRDG) were seriousely deafeted ain Tobruk july 1942.In that fight died the LRDG founder

[EURifleman]

Dude learn to spell alright it's the Desert Raiders not Riders...

[KSudbury]

It is worth remembering that the LRDG included detachments from the Commmonwealth forces. My father was a signaller with the ILRS (the Indian Long Range Squadron) which was one unit of the LRDG. These troops ventured far behind German lines, in reconnaissance, in fast artillery raids and generally interrupting the German war effort in the desert. Their camaraderie was intense, with the usual distinctions of rank, and formality much reduced. Everyone faced the extremities of life in the desert.