PPA go south
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Originally Posted by Walkabout
Yep, "often" is wrong: he went that way with Easonsmith: its outlined in the link from Richard K.
Cheers,
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Yet again, my memory is poor: looking at the authors book, Popski took his own army - the PPA - via the Gilf mountains on the way to the Kufra Oasis. This was with a handful of jeeps and trucks, navigating new territory for all of them. In effect he used the Gilf as a landmark in finding his way to the Oasis.
The "Easonsmith" (of the LRDG) trip was an earlier trip of shorter distance which took a route that lay much further north but it was sufficient to penetrate the German lines in and around the Jebel Akhdar.
Richard's weblink is correct but it is summarising a few books, not just Peniakoffs. It is an interesting summary in itself.
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Dave
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