An Australian Story - The Remarkable Rats

As the thread was Antipodean what about " On 22nd April (1943) the Maori battalion of the 2nd New Zealand division, captured the hill of Takrouna in broad daylight, no mean feat of arms".
God bless all the allies.

 

http://28bn.homestead.com/history11.html

'Of all the magnificent achievements of 2 NZ Div. I have always felt that the capture of Takrouna must surely have been one of the finest. I went up there myself during the battle just after the 51st Highland Division had taken over, and I cannot, to this day, imagine how it was captured in the face of tenacious enemy resistance.'


Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, KCB, MC

 

I would have loved to hear the vocals with that photo!