The "Crude" British Desert Truck That Let Six Men Wage War Five Hundred Miles Behind Rommel's Lines

Описание: The LRDG Chevrolet 30-cwt was the most important patrol truck of the desert war. A commercial Canadian-built Chevrolet stripped down and modified to wage war over a thousand miles behind Rommel's front line. The full story of how a crude civilian truck became the backbone of Britain's first special forces.

From Bagnold's pre-war desert expeditions to Alexandria 1940. Chevrolet Stovebolt inline six engine. Bagnold sun compass. Radiator condenser. Sand channels. Lewis guns. Vickers K guns. Breda 20mm cannon. Boys anti-tank rifle. Browning fifty calibre. Every modification covered. Every weapon explained.

Combat record across every theatre. Murzuk. Road Watch. Barce. Tunisia. The Aegean. Italy. The Balkans. How the LRDG carried the SAS to their first successful raids. Why the Chevrolet outperformed the Ford F30 that the Army forced on them. How Wilder's Gap helped Montgomery outflank the Mareth Line.

350 men. Stripped-down Chevrolets. A sun compass made from a knitting needle. Rommel himself said they caused more damage than any British unit of equal strength.

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