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Originally posted by Keith Webb
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Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
Convoy of Allied military vehicles on a winding road, coast below, ca. 1940-1946 : (Barqah, Libya)
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Just a quick pull on the handbrake and a reef on the steering wheel, and we'll take this thread off in a new direction.
The caption for this pic states it is Barqah, Libya (WW2 sp. Barce), but it is actually 100's of miles away, being the switchback hill above Sollum, Egypt. This hill features in many of the War Diaries of Nth Africa, as Sollum was the last town in Egypt before Allied troops "Crossed the Wire" into Libya.
Google Earth shows that the road is still pretty much as it was 67 years ago (Go to this spot on Google Earth, and just to the left (West!) you can still see the "Wire"!):