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Tobruk  Siege

Rommel of the Blitzkrieg 
had Europe overcome
With the Stukas and dive bombing
And the Tanks that overrun

North Africka would see his tanks
il Duce’s troops were beat
Aussies took 20,000 Italians
At Tobruk in stinking heat

In Europe when his tanks arrived
The captured did surrender
The Poms escaped at Dunkirk
The English well remember

Morsehead an Aussie General
He baited the trap
Strategic  mines, artillery, cooks
manned Italian guns , and ack ack.

Tobruk the Panzer tanks came in
The rats went down their holes       (Desert Rats Aussie Diggers said Lord Haw Haw)
They rose behind the tanks
Wehrmact soldiers bullet holed

25 pounders fired at just point blank
with cooks and Pommy Armour 
Were thinning German ranks
true blue these little charmers
So they blew the turrets off 
16 of the best
Unbeaten until this point
A trace of fallen crest

8 long months they dished it out
Though Rommel tried again ……….(lost just as many tanks again)
He had to wait till the Aussies left
To take Tobruk from them

Don Johnson

70 years ago, the Afrika Korp would attack the 14,000 Aussies and Tommy Tank men,  Also known as Rats.
The Tanks rolled into the perimeter, Aussies sprang from their holes and fought the German Soldiers behind the tanks, “We shut the gate behind them” the Aussies said.
This thorn in the side in Rommel ‘s mind allowed time for the massive replacement of
armour destroyed by Rommel, with American tanks.          The siege held for 240 days in
what is now  today’s , Gaddafi’s Lybria.   These  Aussies were used to living rough
sleeping on the ground 
walking from town to town in the great depression, they were brought up on roo or pig shooting  and the occasional rabbit.

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