The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, acting under the direction of General Archibald Wavell.

2022年2月8日 · An actual movie about the LRDG. (Unfortunately it is in Black & White, Fortunately it avoids the cliches!) A team of British sappers are attached to an LRDG patrol being sent to destroy a German petrol dump. Being made in 1958 saves the movie from the worst of the cliches mentioned above.

It is a fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) that endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk.

2023年5月13日 · Set in North Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. It is a fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) that endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk.

Sea of Sand (released in the US as Desert Patrol) is a 1958 British war film starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. [1] The film, which was directed by Guy Green, is about a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during the North African Campaign in the Second World War. It was shot on location in the Kingdom of ...

1941: Deep behind enemy lines in the blistering heat of the Sahara, a Kiwi unit of the elite Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) is ambushed by an Italian patrol in the remote valley of Gebel Sherif. In the battle that follows one of their tight-knit unit is killed, four go missing and three of their valuable trucks are left burnt out wrecks.

2009年4月26日 · In the documentary, modern day historian and expert on the LRDG, Brendan O'Carroll, retraces the steps of the soldiers by travelling 4000 kilometres deep into the Sahara Desert braving 40 degree temperatures, land mines, and the worst of living conditions - all of which the soldiers had to themselves go through, during WW2.

2013年12月9日 · The LRDG was formed in 1940 by Major Ralph Bagnold to act as the forward intelligence arm of the British army in North Africa, penetrating deep behind enemy lines in the Libyan desert. The small unit of men came from the British, New Zealand, Rhodesian and …

This documentary follows three amateur historians into the heart of the Libyan Sahara, as they track the path of ‘T Patrol’, part of World War II’s legendary Long Range Desert Group. The unit, which included a number of Kiwis, braved extreme heat and desert conditions to launch surprise raids deep behind enemy lines in converted Chevrolets.