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The search for Purzel, a car from...
What make of car was used for these trips - surely there were no 4x4s in those days ?
It would be interesting to know how they overcame the problem of constantly getting stuck in sand. The long range desert group relied on large-flotation tyres, and driving skill, chiefly...
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Tango, IMHO there is something wrong in your statment about the likelihood that the English special corps recovered the Purzel: do you think that in this evenience the English patrols (LRDG, SDF or SAS) don't divulgate this important notice to the public? Why? And furthemore why not there is any militar reports known (reserved or not) about a finding that at least parzially could be redeem the special corps from the blow sustained for the success of the Almasy's Salam Operation?
Furthemore John Eppler, the Rommel's spy in company with Almasy during the Salam Operation, wrote in his book, published in 1977, that as far as he know the lorry in question was still hidden in the GSS.
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After a three year collaborative research with Kuno and Michael, we finally published our book on Operation Salam which gives answers to most of the old discussions which went on in this thread. We have also managed to obtain nearly 170 of the roughly 200 photographs which Almásy and companions took during Operation Salam, many of which were never seen or published before.
Operation SALAM
László Almásy’s most daring Mission in the Desert War
Kuno Gross, Michael Rolke & András Zboray
belleville
ISBN 978-3-943157-34-5
410 pages
may be ordered here
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In case any of you were contemplating buying but were put off by the price, the recent slide of the Euro against the Pound/Dollar permitted a significant reduction in the UK and US/worldwide prices for our Operation SALAM book, to £34 and $55 respectively (both including shipping costs). Details here: http://www.fjexpeditions.com/resources/…/operation_salam.htm
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