Guardsmen of the 6th mine-sapper battalion behind enemy lines

Photo by Raskin

1942

Afrika Korps soldiers with a Panzer 3 tank stocked with jerry cans full of water.


Well stocked with water in the desert

General Rommel (front, center) and German army and navy officers meeting Italian submarine officers of the crew of minelaying submarine Zoea, on the occasion of the first submarine transport. Along with her sister boats, Zoea was used to carry fuel for Rommel's army in the small Cyrenaican (Lybian) harbors, where larger ships were unable to dock; Bardia, Lybia, approx. 40 miles east of Tobruck, 10 May, 1941.