Start Digging, You Bastards!'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about We felt it was a suicide mission.' July 1942: the North African campaign rages and the Allies have been forced to retreat from Gazala, chased through the sandy wastes by Field Marshal Rommel, 'the Desert Fox', and his Panzerarmee. The Axis target is Cairoif they take