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"As soon as we tossed our blankets down on the floor of the cave we knew we had discovered the largest and most savage colony of fleas in North Africa and they swarmed over us from head to toe. We brushed them off in their hundreds, but thousands took their place and we ran from the cave as if pursued by monsters." [1]

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  MANY CAVES, gun pits and trenches in Tobruk were infested with fleas, which attacked the troops mercilessly. The presence of the fleas was usually blamed on the Italians.  
   

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  1. Barber, Jack, The War, the Whores and the Afrika Korps, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, 1997, p 112
  

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