V SIGN AT TOBRUK
MANY DIFFERENT GUiSES
CAIRO, August 17.
"Tobruk is probably the only battlefrorit where the Germans are being daily confronted with the V sign in many guises," says the Australian official war correspondent.
"The Bren-gunners now control their bursts of tracer fire at night to space out the Morse 'V.' The searchlight crews join their beams in one huge V, covering the sky.
"Thousands of the signs have been printed, and these are carried by every patrol and pinned to the clothing of the enemy dead and stuck to every German signpost, our patrols come upon." ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 8
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