Routed by Rommel

And at one stage what happened was Rommel was the general of the Germans, he organized his armies and he wanted to advance, put some contacts on us and they started advancing. And then we, it was so, the position was so heavy that the allied forces had to withdraw. The truck I was in, in which my wireless station was, out of the 5 wheels, the spare wheel was already bust because of the stones in the desert and all that, they would all get cut. We were just on four working wheels and we were running back. The Germans were advancing. I could see 40 or 60 maybe, German tanks coming in a line towards us firing at a terrific speed. We could see their firing, lights, shells, you see these flashes of lights, firing at us but we were told to retreat. We were retreating and we went on retreating the whole day. At night, we’d stop for the night and the next morning we’d start, we saw again that they were firing, the Germans again on us. We started withdrawing again on it so for three days we kept on withdrawing, and then thereafter one of the commanders thought we cannot possibly get rid of these fellows so we kept on driving day and night then we would get away from these fellows. They gave us a very tough time. And then next, of course, the Reich troops regrouped again, and then they started to advance again, and then we’re advancing, and we’re back to Libya, Libya and took everything back to the enemy. What goes on sometimes, you got the upper hand and other times the enemy has the upper hand. It goes on, it’s a part of life.