It was based on an actual mission in which British Troops & a group of German-Jewish commandos went across the Africa desert to blow up Rommel' s fuel bunkers which supplied gas for his drive the Suez Canal.
Rick West, a german Veteran of Rommel' s Africa Korps who survived the actual 1942 attack, served as a technical adviser on the film.
In fact, the real mission was a fiasco but did a little damage.

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