Tobruk
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chickenrunner
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Sorry not a patch on 'The Desert Rats'. 
Erimus74
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Both cracking filmsSorry not a patch on 'The Desert Rats'.
chickenrunner
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Plus of course The Desert Rats has The Campbells are Coming title music.Both cracking films
Did not realized it was based on truth, until I read Damien Lewis book Ghost Patrol. It even mentions the part were the German motor cycle troops join the convoy.Another great film, Rock Hudson, George Peppard
Rest days will be war films galore
WoodallServices
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After years of promising Peter Jackson still canāt get his @rse into gear and do the Dambusters remake!
Expat Smoggie
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Iām sure the cancel culture would object!!After years of promising Peter Jackson still canāt get his @rse into gear and do the Dambusters remake!
swordtrombonefish
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The Bridge at Remagen is a cracking little war film if you haven't seen it - very understated and underrated.
Cardiffdaffs
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Wheres Roofieās obligatory black and white still of Tobruk? I demand one.
Abel Tasman
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The only beef Iāve got with that film is that the Siege of Tobruk involved British, Kiwi, Aussie and Polish soldiers and not US troops. And yet the film stars Rock Hudson, George Peppard and Guy Stockwell.
Redwurzel
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The biggest tank battle ever was at Kursk. Never seen a film of that.
I never knew the second biggest battle of WW2 was the battle for Budapest until I visited the City. Alot of Waffen SS were dug in supported by Hungarian Fascists and Hungarian Army against the Red Army. The battle was intense and lasted 50 days (Berlin was only 11 days?). Alot of civilans also died in the fighting and possibly hundreds of thousands were abused mainly women by Russians and Russian deserters. The Waffen SS were told to fight till they die and 30,000 did. 500,000 Hungarians were shipped to the USSR where a lot died, these included 32,000 ethnic German Hungarians. In the battle the Germans had to eat anything, they built factories in the ruins used to gliders to bring supplies in, because they were encircled. What a film could be made of this.
I never knew the second biggest battle of WW2 was the battle for Budapest until I visited the City. Alot of Waffen SS were dug in supported by Hungarian Fascists and Hungarian Army against the Red Army. The battle was intense and lasted 50 days (Berlin was only 11 days?). Alot of civilans also died in the fighting and possibly hundreds of thousands were abused mainly women by Russians and Russian deserters. The Waffen SS were told to fight till they die and 30,000 did. 500,000 Hungarians were shipped to the USSR where a lot died, these included 32,000 ethnic German Hungarians. In the battle the Germans had to eat anything, they built factories in the ruins used to gliders to bring supplies in, because they were encircled. What a film could be made of this.
Expat Smoggie
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I canāt imagine how a war was fought in the desert ā not least the Sahara or Libyan desert. The desert rats movie does a decent job of capturing the hostilities of the desert but for anyone who has actually been there for work etc will know doubt agree with me itās strange but beautiful place to be. The sand storms are quite unbelievableā as is the calm of the desert night. Those warriors of WW2 deserve a special thought every time Tobruk or El Alamein is celebrated.