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EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 1

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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How Do You Make Your Own Tea in the Afrika Korh?

Deep forces are getting much better rations generally speaking. The Italian rations are absolutely despicable and are terrible. Everyone's getting enough to eat but they're very basic, very repetitive. Lots of hard-tacked biscuits. Lots of don't rot. Everything's in tins. You make tea with a biscuit tin or a flimsy which is a five gallon can. It works really. And you put sand in it, put petrol to sand, set it to water boils instantly. So that goes into your clatoon cooking ration. Water is absolutely precious. There are flies everywhere. Although the desert itself is clean, men are not. For obvious reasons.

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