Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Desert Rats were the only British armoured division to use the Cromwell as their main battle tank. [ 60 ] Major-General Gerald Lloyd-Verney , GOC 7th Armoured Division, enters Ghent in his Staghound armoured car , 8 September 1944.
The Desert Rats, along with the rest of the 1st Armoured Division, carried out a left-hook manoeuvre that swung round the Iraqi Republican Guard. The brigade advanced deep into Iraqi territory, encountering some armour of the Republican Guard. The ground campaign formally ended on 28 February with the liberation of Kuwait achieved. [8]
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.
Robin Neillands, in his work on the Eighth Army, wrote "It is worth pointing out here that the term 'Desert Rat', though often used to describe any soldier of the Desert Army or the men who fought in Tobruk – the Australians have a 'Rats of Tobruk' Association – should strictly be applied only to the men of the British 7th Armoured Division".
The Desert Rats: the 7th Armoured Division in World War II. Havertown, Pennsylvania: Greenhill Book. ISBN 978-1-78438-410-4. Zaloga, Steven (2015). Armored Champion: The Top Tanks of World War II. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-81171-437-2
The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940–43. Helion. ISBN 978-1-912174-63-8. Zabecki, David T. (28 October 2014). Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History (4 volumes). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-981-3. Zabecki, David T. (May 2015). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia ...
The Brigade itself will be re-designated as the 7th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters East, but retain its famed 'Desert Rats' insignia. On 24 February 2015, the brigade formally stepped out of its armour role into that of an infantry brigade and regional point of command. [35]
Major General James Malcolm Leslie Renton, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE (18 March 1898 – 11 January 1972) was a senior British Army officer who briefly commanded the 7th Armoured Division ("The Desert Rats") during the Second World War.