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Sky News host Alan Jones says the legend of the Rats of Tobruk began 80 years ago, yesterday, but suspects "the classrooms of Australia" would likely be teaching "absolutely nothing" about this. "Yesterday, 80 years ago, the Rats of Tobruk were born; soldiers of the Australian-led garrison that held the Libyan Port of Tobruk in World War II," he said. Between April and August 1941, 35,000 allies, including 14,000 Australian soldiers were besieged in Tobruk by a German/Italian Army commanded by General Rommel. The soldiers adopted Tobruk's network of below-ground defensive positions built by the Italian Army before the war, which was used as propaganda to derisively refer to the garrison as the Rats of Tobruk. "By the time the Rats were relieved of duty, between August and October of 1941, 3000 had become casualties; 941 taken prisoner," Mr Jones said. "But the Australians reclaimed the name as a badge of pride, even striking t

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