Kanonerna i öknen was released in the year 1971。Kanonerna i öknen is also called as Raid on Rommel, Yllätysisku, Saharas helte, Im Morgengrauen brach die Hölle los, Comando en el desierto, Cinquième commando。

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.