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Troops
in the Desert:
Their Daily Life
By JOHN YINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent
Flies, boredom, and heat are the biggest enemies of British troops in Egypt.
Newly-drafted troops quickly get ac- elimatized to the pecu- liar local conditions whilst undergoing training for highly mobile desert wartare, in which patrols roam the desert waste in armoured cars and in- fantry ride in trucks seeking Italians with whom to do battle.
An average trooper, who often sleeps in the open air, is generally awakened soon after 6 a.m. by the flies which swarm around as soon the sun warms the night-cooled de sert. After washing in a canvas bucket with water which is speci- ally brought in water
as
carts, the trooper dons khaki shirts, shorts and gym shoes, which are necessary for the desert, where the tem- perature is often over 106 Fahrenheit.
Al Fresco Breakfast
Breakfast in the open air at eight consists of tinned fish, tea, bread, marmalade, and perhaps butter, plus any luxury which friends may have sent. This is the menu for troops in advanced posi tion; if they are farther back they get eggs and bacon. Sometimes it is. possible to buy eggs hun- dreds of miles from any- where from some wander- ing Bedouin who pops up out of the ground with the skirt of his grubby, night- gown-like costume filled with tiny eggs of mysteri- ous origin.
Out in the blue the units are small and highly me- chanised, for which reason troopers are liable to be called on to do any job. The morning is often spent overhauling tanks, arm- oured care and trucks, if
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no operation is planned, or digging slit trenches to dive into when the whistle
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As the morning wears, as the sun beats down hot- ter and hotter until lunch- time,, when one eats bully beef, bread, tea, and special dessert amid hordes of flies.
The appearance of flies anywhere in the desert within five minutes of the presence of a human being is one of the major mys- teries of Egypt.
BBC News
In the afternoon, the trooper plays cards, usual- ly Pontoon, until tea, which consists of bread and jam, and perhaps, but- ter. After tea, he listens in to the BBC news, writes a letter, home, or, for the fifteenth time, rereads the last one he got.
Supper consists of bread, tinned meat or fish and tinned fruit, and is eaten under canvas by the light of spluttering paraf- fin lamps, although some units have electric light.
The BBC is the main source of evening en- tertainment, but lucky units have
dart- board. Yarns are swap- ped and experiences exchanged until they are -so-old-they-are-bewhisker-- ed. Sometimes someone drops in after a sixty-mile across the desert
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after a breakdown, and tells what it feels like to be lost in the desert.
Unlucky Brigadier Everyone is in bed early, but sometimes the whistle sounds through the pitch black night, and everyone. rushes barefooted across the stony desert to the nearest trench. At one place, which shall be name- less, half a unit' jumped into a trench on top of a Brigadier whom they fail- cdl to see in the dark.
When an operation is under way the scene changes. Tanks and armoured cars rattle off into the darkness. Infantry silently climbs into trucks and, with the mobile artillery, follow to the destination some- where behind or near the Italian positions. The mobile column arrives at the selected Apót just before dawn, and lies doggo until nightfall while the mobile observation post keeps watch for Italian movements and Italian planes.
After nightfall the guns open up and the tanks and armoured cars rush in' with machine-guns blazing, follow- ed by the infantry who cap- ture as many prisoners and documents as possible, apiko the guns, blow up ammunition dumps, cut telephone lines, shoot all who show resistance, destroy trucks or drive them
away.
This is just a snapshot of the life of those who have recently scored auch out- standing successes in desert battle.
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