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Default Re: German special unit at El Alamein
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Originally Posted by Battleaxe View Post
I have heard of a german special unit which had been collecting intel (signals) on the 8th Army for quite a while when the battle of El Alamein started, and that was wiped out (if I remember well, at Tel El Eisa) by a special Kiwi detachment which had as its only mission to do so.

Can anyone help me with info on the subject?
I posted about this in a previous thread . I bumped it up for you.

El Alamein: Australian 2/24th Battalion and German 621 Company on 10 July 1942
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