By Wilfried Kopenhagen
Proven are Soviet armored trains as used in the course of the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil battle, and global conflict II.
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Hence the training of the brigades as battle groups had not even begun. The state of training may be inferred from statements of two of the brigadiers at a conference called by Major-General J. D. Lavarack (who was then their divisional commander) on 1 4th J anuary. " In short, the soldiers had been trained to fight but the officers and staffs had yet not been trained in battle management. The responsibility, laid on Morshead, of swiftly moulding these raw units into a division fit for the vital role of frontier defence was not light; but he was qualified to bear it.
1-15 Mar f{ O M M E L ' S I N t E N T I O N S 23 were placed in Marada, the enemy would have to use tanks to make an attack. If he attempted to thrust across the difficult terrain south of the salt lakes, he could easily be haIted by a formation of the strength of the 5th Light Division with good support from the air. "Since I cannot count on the arrival of reinforcements for several weeks," he wrote, "it appears to me to be e ssential (a) to occupy the coastal strip west of El Agheila at the most favourable point and to defend it resolutely, employing mines and mobile forces; ( b ) to occupy the area south of the salt lakes in order to interfere with enemy ground reconnaissance and, in close cooperation with the air force, to halt the advance of larger enemy forces.
113. • The Western Desert 14 M INIMUM F ORC E GUARDS C YR E NA I C A Mar 1941 and discouraging all except the most determined ramblers. The opportunity would come later. On 6th March the brigade moved out to west of Derna. In the morning the 9th Division suffered its first war casualties. The convoy bearing the 2/ 1 3th Battalion was attacked for half an hour by five Heinkel aircraft : two were killed and one wounded, and some damage was done to vehicles. In the afternoon, the convoys descended by the magnificent Italian-built road, the Via Balbia, from the high escarpment to the small port of Derna, a town of white houses and flowering shrubs, but climbed the escarpment again by a zigzagging pass to the west of the town, and there camped for the night.
