"For the desert rats... the men of the Eighth Army... who on 23rd. October 1942, left the holes they had scratched for themselves in the rock and sand of the desert, and moved forward to destroy the myth of Rommel's invincibility... and to complete the liberation of the second Roman Empire overseas."
"For the sister services too,... the R.A.F. and the Navy,...and the workers of Great Britain and the United States,... without whose efforts victory could not have been achieved."