Chapter 3 - By Snake Or By ArmsCorporal Normy arrived at Longreach with his band of exhausted Stosstruppen and comfort lady, Nancy, after their escape from the Sundown's Commando outpost at Birdsville. It was a gruelling eighteen hour drive, complete with two punctures and a scorpion sting to one of the mechanics while changing tyres.
They were met with the warmth and camaraderie he was expecting as conquering heroes. But as the days passed a coldness settled over the township. Where the Stosstruppen once walked boldly down the streets and were greeted as heroes they were now shunned and avoided as though they were infected with a disease.
It was while drinking with the locals that the Stosstruppen platoon members learned that the elite Mount Isa Claws had a new commander. Colonel Bartle
