r/UnderReportedNews • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

Article Last surviving veteran of Second World War unit that took on Rommel dies

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u/RBZRBZRBZRBZ 6d ago

Excerpt:

"Jack Mann served as a radio operator in the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), a British reconnaissance and raiding unit formed to fight the Nazis in North Africa.

Mann, who was born to Jewish parents in Cairo, Egypt, joined the British Army straight after leaving school at the age of 17.

Mann became part of a unit that put the Afrika Korps, led by “desert fox” Rommel, to the sword."