Killing Rommel (2008)
“Orders are issued at 1400. All passes are cancelled and all mail and phone privileges cut off. Instructions to the patrol commanders are to outfit their vehicles with fuel, oil, water, rations and ammunition for thirty days.
T3 patrol—the one I’ll ride with—has at the last instant lost its commander, Lieutenant Warren, to an emergency appendectomy. Sergeant Collier is placed in command. The eleven other men are all New Zealanders, except Miller, the medical orderly, who’s a Yorkshireman from Bradford. We have five SAS troopers who will travel with us.
The trucks are loaded in a yard that’s off-limits to all but LRDG personnel. The men are given the afternoon and night to pack the vehicles; I keep close but out of the troopers’ way.
In honour of the New Zealand composition of T3 patrol, the trucks all bear Maori names. I will ride in Te Aroha IV. Patrol commanders’ vehicles are American Willys jeeps, reserved for the LRDG from the rare and highly prized few that Eighth Army has managed... to lay hands on, so that these officers can scout ahead over rough going.MoreLess
T3 patrol—the one I’ll ride with—has at the last instant lost its commander, Lieutenant Warren, to an emergency appendectomy. Sergeant Collier is placed in command. The eleven other men are all New Zealanders, except Miller, the medical orderly, who’s a Yorkshireman from Bradford. We have five SAS troopers who will travel with us.
The trucks are loaded in a yard that’s off-limits to all but LRDG personnel. The men are given the afternoon and night to pack the vehicles; I keep close but out of the troopers’ way.
In honour of the New Zealand composition of T3 patrol, the trucks all bear Maori names. I will ride in Te Aroha IV. Patrol commanders’ vehicles are American Willys jeeps, reserved for the LRDG from the rare and highly prized few that Eighth Army has managed... to lay hands on, so that these officers can scout ahead over rough going.MoreLess
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