‘DAD WAS JUST YARDS FROM ROMMEL’
MIKE WOOD lives in Norwich with his wife Anita. Before he retired he worked in insurance
On a moonlit night in June 1942, Private Neville Wood and three soldiers drove out into the Libyan desert in wagons loaded with mines. They were heading for an Allied defensive box, and knew that they would pass perilously close to the Germans’ lines.
Halfway into the journey a howling sandstorm engulfed the
