[Von Paulus]

Here's a short story about my Great-Grandfather, who was serving in Nth Africa during Rommels campaign to take Tobruk...

My G-G (great-grandfather) was part of a scouting party, It was getting dark and so they stopped for the night and built fortifications (a small trench and a pit to sleep in...My G-G and he's friend couldn't fit in the pit so they had to sleep in the trench, a few hours after dark they met light fire from a german patrol but were backed up by another Australian patrol and the attack was repulsed, It was during early morn when a Panzer and German Infantry advanced over the position, they drove over the trench and buried my G-G and his friend...luckily for the others they were able to halt the tanks advance by throwing grenades into the tank and destroying the crew, unfortunatley, they knocked the tank out right on top of the trench, and it was 3 hours before they could dig my G-G and his friend out... They were both alive