Interesting historical photos

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The British Long range desert group in WW2 they were a long range recon unit in the Western desert they also worked with the SAS by inserting them as close as possible to the targets such as Nazi airfields and when possible withdrawing them.

 

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The British Long range desert group in WW2 they were a long range recon unit in the Western desert they also worked with the SAS by inserting them as close as possible to the targets such as Nazi airfields and when possible withdrawing them.
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That picture is of David Stirling and his SAS guys. The jeeps were used for raids on German airfields.

The LRDG used Chevy trucks and avoided contact wherever possible. Led by Bagnold, who had extensive pre war Sahara Desert experience, the unit was mainly made up of Kiwi's.