Thanks Owen ! I am interested in the action of the Guards as I am researching 1 Para and the Guards came to their supports.
A few thinks can not be right...
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'...and it seemd from their report [1 Para] that it would be a very easy task'..
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I do not know where the historian came to write this but 1 Para was almost wipped out.!
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3 GG War Diary mention: At 10.00 hrs, the 1 Para Bn were reported to have captured Dj Mansour and El Alliliga; they had suffered fairly heavy casualties and required assistance from the grenadiers to hold their position.
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In fact only Mansour had been captured for some part, not even completly and the attack to take El Alliliga had failed.
Nevertheless its the first detailed info I got about the role of the Guards in the battle appart from what is written in the WD
Thanks