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...went with a captain called Peter in his Bren gun carrier. His job was to go in with the first infantry attack and then to haul mortars and anti-tank guns across the wadi, once we had consolidated our positions. Zero hour was originally 11, then it was postponed until 1 in the morning...
Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered a paddle blade...
...colonel led the attack, firing a Bren gun. But they finally had to give it up. Those who were left marched back through Tébourba. They wanted to hold there, but the colonel ordered them to withdraw to the main British lines. To remain meant certain annihilation. They obeyed and under the cover of night retired. The colonel was missing. When last seen, he was limping away into the darkness...
Under the bullets the street cleared quickly. The guns rat-tat-tatted down the streets as soldiers followed up the fleeing looters. All that night the looting and the shooting kept up in various parts of town. Soldiers and police roamed the streets in trucks armed with Bren guns, mopped up groups of rioters and looters until morning...
...smoke and the ground where I was lying half a mile away jumped with each explosion. There were seven Junkers 88s with two Messerschmitts as escort. When they had gone the ridge seemed bare, but soon you could see men crawling on it and hear the snap of Bren guns replying to the German fire. . . . There was another bombing attack and two more strafes before dark...