(SA) 80-03-07 (x) Desert Marriage

Adventure! In tonight's story we present... Desert Marriage. This is the eyesport for miles around. See if you can get Major Rawlings now.

Not much hope of that. Still, gotta keep trying I suppose. The Badger calling links. Badger calling links. The bleeding batteries are getting low by now. Keep trying. Badger calling links. Badger calling links. Are you receiving me?

6 to Badger, Lynx to Badger, or... You need coffee, sir. We got spotted by a Jerry convoy of trucks and aft-tracts, and we got clear, but Corporal Orks and Private Thompson was killed by machine gun fire.

Over. So that's just your view. Right. I want you to head back for this. You'll meet there. Huge compiles of German troops, tanks, and equipment are heading east to the front. I'm advising you to go south and steer well clear.

Over. And you sir? We can wait for you with a fuel dump, over? Negative. I gave by the fast-all of your cannons of fuel. Yeah, so we're on our own, eh? Yeah. But I'd rather be going south like us than trying to work our way through Rommel's Africa core.

Let's take a look at our map and see what we're in for. This year is really the story of Spike Tyler, who was one of the toughest men I ever knew. I'd seen him fight over German patrol single-handed, armed only with a Bren gun.

I'd seen him lead a group of volunteers to rescue a batch of prisoners, and in doing so, put to flight an entire brigade of Italian troops. Oh, I could describe a dozen more such incidents to illustrate Tyler's courage.

What happened to us in the North African desert that September of 1942 reduced this brave young man to an off-crazed wiper in lump of flesh and bones. We were part of the long-range desert group and our job was to patrol hundreds of miles beyond the enemy lines to spy on the troop movements often aided by nomadic burber tribesmen. Now we