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Title
Rat Patrol
Description
A standard British LRDG patrol, a rapid moving strike force, contained about 40 men armed with heavy weapons (mostly Lewis machine guns) traveling in ex-civilian Fords, Chevrolets and Jeeps. The squads were also armed with anti-tank rifles, and the …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1942-09-30
Scenario#
47
Scenario Description
A standard British LRDG patrol, a rapid moving strike force, contained about 40 men armed with heavy weapons (mostly Lewis machine guns) traveling in ex-civilian Fords, Chevrolets and Jeeps. The squads were also armed with anti-tank rifles, and the patrol usually had a truck-mounted 20mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun, usually one captured from the Italians. Archibald Percival Wavell, commander of the British Army forces that defeated the Italians in North Africa, referred to the LRDG as his “mosquito columns. The primary purpose of these elite units was to gather intelligence. However, some of the reconnaissance unit’s missions included harassing raids on important targets. In this hypothetical — but historical — scenario, the LRDG is striking out of the deep desert, attacking an unsuspecting German supply convoy.
Location
Barce, Libya
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Caravan was a subsidiary of Operation Agreement under which four simultaneous raids were carried out against important Axis Lines of Communication positions in September 1942. The operations were against Tobruk (Agreement), Benghazi (Bigamy), Jalo oasis (Nicety) and Barce (Caravan). Caravan was the only successful operation of the group. As well as aiding in some of the operations, the Long Range Desert Group was to carry out the attack on the Italians at Barce, particularly the airfield there. To reach Barce, the force travelled 1,155 miles (1,859 km). One part of the force attacked the airfield claiming 35 aircraft destroyed, the other attacked the barracks.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
British

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