BATTLE EXERCISES
More N.Z.E.F. Manoeuvres In Desert (From the Official War Correspondent with the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt.) CAIRO, February 3. Training in resistance to dive-bomb-ing and tank attacks, and night operations were features of realistic battle exercises which have just been completed by a full infantry brigade. In a day’s march of 17 miles across rough desert country, three battalions were subjected to mock attacks by lowflying R.A.F. machines, putting their knowledge of defensive measures to the test.
Next day they marched a further eight miles to a point from which they effected the night capture of a supposed port, which two of the battalions took after carrying all their fighting equipment and dragging antitank guns by hand across a wide stretch of desert. The third battalion fought its way along an imaginary coastline through an intercepting enemy force, consisting of the light tanks and Bren carriers of a cavalry regiment. Continually harassed by the “enemy,” the brigade marched home by night.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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