| Sure does not matter where the British were pushed back to. The Generalship of Morshead and being offensive in defence whilst holding Tobruk for those crucial 250 days in 1941, denied Rommel the Suez?
Morshead's tactics defeated Blitzkrieg, resisted the Africa Korp and the Luftwaffe. They were summarily held and denied certain victory and further penetration into Egypt.
Morshead was a most underated General.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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