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The Desert Rats and the friend who was once a foe reunited after 68 years

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  1. PzJgr

    PzJgr Drill Instructor

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    PzJgr, Jun 15, 2009
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    Tomcat, LRusso216, Totenkopf and 3 others like this.
  2. Heidi

    Heidi Dishonorably Discharged

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    Touching story. I admire Allied and Germans meeting up with each other. It's my passion about ww2.
     
    Heidi, Jun 15, 2009
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  3. mikebatzel

    mikebatzel Dreadnaught

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    What a great story! Thanks for the article.
     
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    brndirt1 Saddle Tramp

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    Thanks for sharing, great story!
     
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  5. C.Evans

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    Very nice, I greatly like these kinds of stories.

    Also, if anyone is interested? I just got in a nice photo of a Desert Rats Mortar team in action somewhere in North Africa. You'll have to ask Skipper nicely to see if he would be willing to post that photo for us here ;-))
     
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    Amazing what can happen in the midst of war, in my view it helps give both sides a picture of someone just like them, opposite in so many other ways but the same in much more especialy when humour is involved.
     
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  7. Heidi

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    Skipper! Is there a chance that you are willing to post Evan's photo up for us?


    Ps,i have a question for the O/P! which men are the Australians and which men are the Germans?
    I can't tell the difference without there uniforms!

    Thank you.
     
    Heidi, Jun 17, 2009
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    I'm a little late getting to this, but what a great story. To me, the personal stories of men like these are so much more interesting than treatises on weapons, war plans, or tactics. Thanks for finding it and posting it, Ike.
     
    LRusso216, Jun 17, 2009
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  9. Heidi

    Heidi Dishonorably Discharged

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    Irusso216-yes it was a great story from IkE.

    Can you tell me which men are the Austrailans and which men are the germans???Please.
    I can;t tell!
     
    Heidi, Jun 17, 2009
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  10. STURMTRUPPEN

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    do you have the german's name
     
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    Here is a really amazing audio account of Rudolf Schneider's life in the Afrika Korps as being Rommel's driver.

    Also a meeting between a british soldier John riggs and Rudolf Schneider. The two veterans in the war in africa meet for the first time since the war.

    Gives you a real understanding the kind of respect the enemy had for eachother in africa.


    BBC - Today



    enjoy.
     
    sunny971, Jun 20, 2009
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