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When Tripoli was about to fall a rushe order went down to Cairo for thousands of Sheaths Prophylatic, Troops for the Use Of. The duty of the Medics was to keep the army in fighting trim; Tripoli was the first enemy city to be captured during the war and it contained thousands of buxom Italian beauties; 8th Army men had scarcely seen a woman for months and many (it was thought)would not be able to control themselves.A VD outbreak should be deflected.
The order was rescinded, we were told, "At the highest possible level", Monty apparently believed in self-control.
I was in Tripole early on and never heard a whisper of rape, despite the troops that thronged the Italian shops, staffed by very attractive girls.
Britsh troops were remarkably well-behaved, most of them writing to wives and girl-friends and longing to get home in one piece,

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