PRISONER OF WAR, 1942-5

摘要

In Military History Journal, Vol 13 No 5, June 2006, pp 168-73, the first part of Arthur Candy's story of the Second World War was published under the title 'Maritzburg to Mareopolis-The making of an amateur artilleryman'. In Military History Journal, Vol 14 No 1, June 2007, pp 22-31, his story continued under the title 'Amateur Artilleryman in the Desert, 1941-2'. This brought us through the Desert Campaign in North Africa to the disaster of Tobruk, 21 June 1942. Facing the crack armour units of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's 21st and 15th Panzer Divisions, the fortress of Tobruk fell and, with it, most of its 33 000-strong garrison force. In this, the first of a two-part series, Arthur Candy describes his war experiences after Tobruk, as a prisoner of war behind enemy lines…