V SIGN AT TOBRUK
TROOPS WORRY ENEMY PATROLS AFFIX SYMBOLS (Reed. Aug. 18, 11.30 a.m.) CAIRO, Aug. 17. Tobruk is probably the only battlefront where the Germans are being daily confronted with the V sign in many different guises, says the Australian official war correspondent. Bren-gunners now control their bursts of tracer fire at night to space out in Morse the letter V, and searchlight crews join their beams in one huge V covering the sky. Thousands of signs have been printed. These are carried by every patrol and are pinned to the clothing of enemy dead and stuck to every German signpost that our patrols come upon ” A Middle East communique, states there is no change in the situation at Tobruk. During yesterday our artillery patrols were active in the frontier area.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 5
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