Bardia to Enfidaville
List of Illustrations
page ix
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece | |
On to Tunis | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Following page 86 | |
The left hook at El Agheila | F. T. Allan |
A 25-pounder and its limber are winched up a rise | F. T. Allan |
New Zealand Vickers guns in position near Wadi Matratin | |
General Freyberg confers with his O Group near Nofilia | J. C. White |
Bypassing a demolished bridge on the Via Balbia near Sirte | NZ Army |
Engineers search the roadside for mines | NZ Army |
A sapper removes an S-mine from a landing field | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
An enemy shell bursts among advancing transport to the south of Buerat | J. C. White |
The Division, in desert formation, advances from Wadi Zemzem towards Beni Ulid | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Beni Ulid - from a painting by R. L. Kay | |
New Zealand engineers clear a track on the route between Beni Ulid and Azizia | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A British armoured car near Tarhuna | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A New Zealand column approaches Tarhuna | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
On the road to Azizia | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
New Zealand sappers make friends with an Italian family on the way to Tripoli | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Following page 170 | |
General Freyberg confers with a Royal Scots Greys officer and Brigadier Weir near Azizia | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Entering Tripoli. Four Maori soldiers share a tin of bully beef; Maori anti-tank gunners drive through an avenue of bluegums | NZ Army (H. Paton) page x |
A New Zealand battalion on an Eighth Army church parade in Tripoli | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Unloading supplies from a lighter at Tripoli | NZ Army |
Divisional parade for Mr Churchill at Castel Benito, 4 February 1943 | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Mr Churchill takes the salute | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Medenine | J. M. Mitchell |
Soft sand on the route to the Tebaga Gap | G. V. Turnbull |
Operation SUPERCHARGE: an aerial mosaic of the Tebaga Gap | Army Air Photograph Interpretation Unit |
A 1 Armoured Division tank on its way to the Tebaga Gap | K. G. Killob |
The breakthrough at Tebaga. British tanks assemble for the advance to El Hamma | British official photograph |
Following page 234 | |
Passing through Gabes. The inhabitants fill in a crossing over Wadi Gabes | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A Hurricane drops a message at New Zealand Corps Headquarters | J. C. White |
Stretcher bearers carry wounded to an ambulance plane near Tebaga Gap | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Eighth Army advances to attack the Wadi Akarit position | Indian official photograph |
NZASC vehicles pass through the Wadi Akarit defences | O. Bracegirdle |
The Enfidaville battlefield—a relief model made by New Zealand engineers | |
Takrouna, from the east | French official photograph |
5 Brigade's sector, showing the axes of advance of the three battalions of 5 Brigade | |
Takrouna. The Ledge, taken from the Pinnacle | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
Looking south-east from Takrouna | K. G. Killoh page xi |
The lower village | K. G. Killoh |
New Zealand field artillery in action near Takrouna | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
A convoy passes through a field of daisies | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
Black diamond signs and cactus hedges mark the route forward | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
Italian troops surrender north of Enfidaville | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
General Montgomery | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Lieutenant-General Horrocks | British official photograph |
10 Corps Headquarters awaits word of the enemy's capitulation, 13 May 1943 | |
10 Corps' message to 1 Italian Army, 9.5 p.m., 12 May 1943, and situation report on 13 May notifying the surrender of the Italians | War Diary, G Branch, 2 NZ Division |
Field Marshal Messe surrenders to General Freyberg, 13 May 1943 | J. C. White |
General Mannerini, GOC Saharan Group, with his Chief of Staff at Divisional Headquarters, 8 April 1943 | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
General von Liebenstein, GOC 164 Light Africa Division, surrenders on 13 May | J. C. White |
German prisoners in Tunisia | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
An Italian taken at Akarit | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
War cemetery at Enfidaville | French official photograph |
The Division returns to Egypt | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
The end of a 2000-mile journey. Passing through Maadi township; arriving at Maadi Camp | NZ Army (H. Paton) |