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The Rats of Tobruk hold an identifiable place within the ranks of returned servicemen, particularly in Australia, where there is the Rats of Tobruk Memorial in Canberra. On 22 March 1944, the original members of the Rats of Tobruk formed the North Bondi Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and it is still known in modern ...
The siege of Tobruk (/ t ə ˈ b r ʊ k, t oʊ-/) took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, during the Western Desert campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War.An Allied force, consisting mostly of the 9th Australian Division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead, was besieged in the North African port of Tobruk by German and Italian forces.
The Rats of Tobruk is a 1944 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel.An abridged version was released in the United States in 1951 as The Fighting Rats of Tobruk.The film follows three drover friends who enlist in the Australian Army together during World War II.
The Desert Rats is a 1953 American black-and-white war film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Robert L. Jacks, directed by Robert Wise, that stars Richard Burton, James Mason, and Robert Newton. The film's storyline concerns the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 North Africa during World War II.
The Rats of Tobruk (1944) – Australian action drama film based on the siege of the Libyan city of Tobruk in North Africa by Rommel's Afrika Korps [164] Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) – biographical gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy [165]
Tobruk and El Alamein (PDF). Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Series 1 – Army. Vol. III (1st (online scan) ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 186193977. McKinney, J. B. (1952). Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy. The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945.
The 9th Division held Tobruk not for eight weeks, but for eight months, during which time three separate relief campaigns by the main Allied force in Egypt failed. [52] Axis propagandists described Morshead as "Ali Baba Morshead and his 20,000 thieves", and branded the defenders of the port as the " Rats of Tobruk ", a sobriquet that they ...
Fighting alongside the British 70th Infantry Division, the brigade took part in the Siege of Tobruk. Overnight on 9 December, during the British Eighth Army 's offensive, Operation Crusader , which was to raise the siege, the Polish brigade seized the strategically important Madauar Hill , the town of Acroma and broke through to the Eighth Army.