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One of my Arabs, Yunes, showed an unequalled gift for spotting mines. By a distortion of memory I see him, far ahead of the rest of us, poking at suspicious stones with an umbrella, shouting“mina, mina,” waving an arm without turning round, bending to mark the spot with a small cairn of stones and scurrying along.We lifted altogether forty-six mines on that stretch of track. A few miles from Zella I came across the twisted remains of a jeep and a grave nearby with an Italian cross marked: ‘Ufficiale Inglese—Novembre 1942\ a grim testimonial to my luck in driving over a mine too deeply buried to be set off by the lightness of my jeep: for Weldon had been blown up exactly in my tracks.

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Date: 2022-12-02 03:49 pm (UTC)
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