The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41 by Glenn Wahlert

Author:Glenn Wahlert
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing

Infantry from the 9th Platoon, A Company, 2/7th Battalion, pause at a gap in the wire entanglements near Tobruk.

(AWM 128410)

After Fort Solaro fell, another company of the 2/4th Battalion under Captain McCarty, moved further west to deal with four machine-gun posts that had opened fire on the battalion’s positions. The enemy posts were quickly captured and found to be guarding the entrance to a tunnel complex. The Australians had stumbled on the Italian fortress headquarters. As they began to round up the Italians hiding in these tunnels, an Italian officer came forward and advised that their commander was present but would only surrender to an officer. As a bit of a lark, Captain McCarty sent in one of his older platoon commanders to take the Italian’s surrender. Presently he emerged from the headquarters with the commander of the Italian XXII Corps, General Enrico Petassi Manella, ‘an old man, dignified and quiet, but very tired’.

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