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Most probably the readers of this magazine have never heard of the original TRACKS. I was in the very same situation until by the end of 2020, when NZ LRDG-historian Brendan OCarroll has provided me with a hardly readable copy of the June 1941 issue of TRACKS. I was immediately fascinated by these windows into the past and just thought: „We should revive TRACKS! “ The editor of the original Tracks was, that time 20 years old, TA Sgt. N. A Moore, a clerk attached to LRDG Group HQ. The June 1941 issue was created by him when the LRDG HQ was located at Kufra. There he got the idea to create a „house paper“ for the unit. He recalled in a letter which was published in the 1991 Newsletter of the LRDG Association, that there were only a very limited number of people who were willing to contribute and that this first edition was mainly launched thanks to the contribution of Lieut. Col. Bagnold and Captain Kennedy Shaw. And indeed, the June 1941 remained the single and only issue of Tracks - it was never published again.... until today! After TRACKS 2021 and TRACKS 2022 is now the third issue of the „re-vived“ magazine.

Am 15. Mai 1942 stand die „Operation Salam“ kurz vor dem Scheitern. László Almásy musste die ursprüngliche Planung überarbeiten, nachdem sein Fahrzeug unbrauchbar war und zwei Mitglieder seiner Einheit gesundheitliche Probleme hatten. Trotz der Erschöpfung seiner Truppe schickte er die Kranken mit dem beschädigten Fahrzeug zurück und führte den Rest seiner Einheit auf einer neuen Route weiter. Die Ressourcen waren knapp, und feindliche Patrouillen erschwerten die Mission. Am 30. Dezember 2008 beschlossen die Autoren, die Geschichte dieser bedeutenden Operation niederzuschreiben und Almásy ein Denkmal zu setzen. Durch Tagebücher, Archivdokumente, historische Fotos und eigene Wüstenerfahrungen klärten sie Mythen und falsche Behauptungen auf, um die korrekte Version von Almásys Aktivitäten darzustellen. Die Erzählung beleuchtet eine der mutigsten Operationen des Zweiten Weltkriegs, die über Tausende von Kilometern durch die Wüste Libyens und Ägyptens führte, während das Oberkommando den Erfolg für unmöglich hielt. Das Buch bietet detaillierte Informationen zur Operation, berücksichtigt frühere Publikationen und bezieht Protokolle von Befragungen gefangener Agenten ein. Originalfotos der „Operation Salam“ sowie aktuelle Aufnahmen entlang der ursprünglichen Route vermitteln einen lebendigen Eindruck der dramatischen Landschaften. Besonders eindrucksvoll sind die „Dann/Jetzt“-Aufnahmen, die die Authentizität des Buches unterstre

The first known use of a sun-compass for motorized vehicles in the Desert of Egypt was during World War I with the Light Car Patrols in 1917.To navigate during his 1929 expedition into the desert of Egypt, Bagnold used a magnetic aero-compass, which was lent to him by the Royal Geographical Society. It was carefully mounted on one of the expedition's Ford-cars but Bagnold could not manage to compensate it properly due to the influence of magnetism caused by the metal structure of the car. Bagnold found that kind of compass unreliable for the purpose and changed to the use of sun-compasses for his next expedition to the sand-sea in 1930.Bagnold's invention was different from all other sun-compasses since it could be used whilst the vehicle was driving. However, although it was an easy to handle and very useful instrument, the British army never adopted it but kept using the other models. When Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group in 1940, his sun-compass became the standard instrument for this unit. Its navigators soon became the unrivaled masters of desert navigation.