Sorry I haven't replied sooner. I've been comparing, with the aid of a magnifying glass, the faces in the Desert Rats 8th Army Photo with those in mine but can't place any. Could the location of ...

The Libyan desert, 1941. Frank Doe is pictured foreground 2nd right (top left), foreground centre (top right), and foreground 2nd left (bottom). Also posing in the photographs are soldiers wearing ...

WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii - Soldiers with the 8th Human Resources Sustainment Center (HRSC) traded the sandstorms of Kuwait for the sandy beaches of Hawaii as they returned home, Sept.

There have many mis-conceptions as to the origins of the story of the slur on 8th Army(Desert Rats) and the fighting in Italy, suffice to say that it is generally believed that it originated with ...

My dad was in the 8th Army with the Desert Rats. He was a rifleman and radio operator in the KRRC in the North Africa campaigns in WWII under Montgomery. I remember him teaching me Morse Code as a ...