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... FREAKS of the DESERT ARTILLERY How Our Gunners Overcame Great Difficulties to Hold Rommel at Bay By DONALD COWIE THAT it was primarily the work of our gunners which halted Rommel's drive towards the Nile Valley now seems certain. Metaphorically digging its ...
... LEADERSHIP IS HALF THE BATTLE The Example of Rommel is Now Before Us, and the Whole Question of Leadership in Battle is Under Scrutiny. We, too, Have Our Rommels if Only We Would Employ Them in the Right Fields of Action By FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN matters ...
... THE PURSUIT OF ROMMEL'S FLEEING ARMY IN EGYPT Recently-arrived Pictures which Demonstrate the Disorganisation of the German and Italian Forces After the Collapse of Their Line HOW THE ENEMY'S MINEFIELDS WERE MASKED, SO THAT THE BRITISH SUPPLY COLUMNS ...
... THE AMERICAN-BUILT GENERAL GRANT TANK, WHOSE GREAT HITTING POWER IN THE LIBYAN DESERT PROVIDED ROMMEL WITH ONE OF HIS BIG SURPRISES. These new vehicles were first engaged in the Battle of Knightsbridge and have been in action ever since It has been publicly ...
... division with I Rommel, who has his own armoured divisions and J about thirty squadrons of aircraft, but, judging 1 from the prisoners taken, the quality of troops is i not so good as that of the original Afrilca Korps. 1 1t would seem that Rommel still waits ...
... to defy Rommel. Newspapers carried quota tions from the Tobruk Times, a garrison newspaper actually printed during the siege. The Aussie portion of the little army became famous for its night sorties, and for its demands for bottled beer. Rommel began to ...
... and German Armoured Forces is Now Taking Place in the Acroma-Knightsbridge Area Special Sphere Drawings At the opening of Rommel's offensive in Libya the British line ran roughly from Gazala, on the coast, down to Bir Hacheim this line was strongly held ...
... the principal roads and distances between the chief points are indicated THE IMPORTANCE OF ROAD COMMUNICATIONS When General Rommel retreated down the Barce-Benghazi road to El Agheila, the enemy blew up the road which leads down the escarpment to Tokra ...
... the decisive defeat of Rommel by the Eighth Army, and which made the statement that the Axis forces are now in full retreat. The British commanders were well up to the fore in the fighting which preceded the collapse of Rommel's defence. Air Vice-Marshal ...
... this had to come from General Wavell s victorious army. Germany seized the opportunity to reinforce her ally, and General Rommel first appeared on the scene with rapidly assembled reinforcements. The German- Italian forces pressed our depleted army back ...
... its efforts, probably wisely, on preventing Rommel's supplies getting through. There is every evidence that they did tremendous destruction here, and that for the early days of the battle they really had Rommel in a quandary. But that bold and skilful general ...
... OF ROMMEL'S BASES The attack on the Axis seaplane base at Bomba- --Drawing by E. G. Lambert The small Italianised Arab town of Bomba, on the way to Derna, was converted by the Italians into a seaplane base. During the steady bombing of all Rommel's supply ...