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Two short years ago we created this message box on our home page, asking for your help to keep this site up and running. Foster is a man with a mission he wants to strike a blow against the nazis in north africa so he dresses up as a german officer, frees an illmatched group of prisonersofwar, and leads them in an assault on the stronghold base of the reknowned field marshall rommel, blowing up fuel dumps and generally. Operation flipper 1941 by gavin mortimer available from rakuten kobo. Operation flipper the commando raid to capture rommel north africa 1418 nov 1941. Made in 1971, raid on rommel was originally planned as a madefortv special to make some more money off of the special effects sequences in tobruk, far too many of which were incorporated into this film. Rommels headquarters or the socalled rommels villa was a prefecture building standing among some stone buildings in a village named bedda littoria, far behind the front, in cyrene area. The disastrous raid on tobruk, the illfated operation agreement, took place in september 1942. Raid world war ii codex free download full version for pc in direct link highly compressed skidrow reloaded setup free download single link android games. Raid on rommel is an american b movie in technicolor from 1971, directed by henry hathaway and set in north africa during the. Raid on rommel by henry hathaway chris anders, greg.
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