The Desert Rats were the 7th Armoured Brigade of the British army.
They adopted it after the Jerboa, or "desert rat", a resident rodent.
Yes the desert eagle was in world war 2
The term desert rats was coined from the Seventh Armoured Division, a group of British soldiers who helped defeat the Germans in North Africa during World War II. The Desert Rats, led by General Allen Francis Harding, were especially noted for a hard-fought, three-month campaign against the more experienced German Africa Korps, led by General Erwin Rommel.
Rats were actually the uniforms that the Autralians wore. (the name of the uniform)
Erwin Rommel, a German General during World War 2, was nicknamed the "Desert Fox."
The Desert Rats were specifially the 7th Armoured Brigade within the 8th Army in North Africa in WW2 fighting against Rommels' Afrika Korps. Their symbol is the jerboa, a desert rat. They went on to Italy, and fought in the D Day offensive in Normandy & the Rhine crossing in 1945.
The Sahara Desert.
NASA 360 - 2008 Desert Rats 2-14 was released on: USA: 10 October 2009
The 'desert fox' in World War 2 was a nickname for the German General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His actual nickname was 'Wüstenfuchs' which is the german word for 'Desert Fox'.
The cold war,The Korean War, Vietnam, War, Desert Storm, and The Iraq war.
US, UK, Germany, Italy
Operation Desert Storm