Stirling's Desert Triumph: The SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids 1942
The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. In North Africa, a convoy of 18 Allied jeeps carrying Special Air Service personnel appeared out of the early-morning darkness and drove onto the Axis landing strip at Sidi Haneish in the Egyptian desert. Within the space of a few savage minutes 18 Axis aircraft were ablaze; a dozen more were damaged and scores of guards lay dead or wounded. The men responsible for the raid then vanished into the night as swiftly as they had arrived, prompting the Germans to dub the enemy leader, David Stirling, 'The Phanto…
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Weitere Autoren: Dennis, Peter (Illustr.) / Shumate, Johnny (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-0763-2
- EAN: 9781472807632
- Produktnummer: 16668549
- Verlag: Osprey Pub Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.2 cm x D1.0 cm 246 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 49
- Gewicht: 246
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Gavin Mortimer
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