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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 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 ]
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 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 Rats of Tobruk (film) S. Senussi Cave Railway; Operation Skorpion; T. Tobruk (1967 film) Tobruk (2008 film) Tobruk Ferry Service; Twin Pimples raid
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 ...
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island has seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy ...
The Rats of Tobruk (film) Running the Sahara; S. Sahara (1943 American film) Slave Girl (1947 film) Sole Survivor (1970 film) Lo squadrone bianco; T. Tobruk (1967 film)