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MUNITIONS FOR ROMMEL

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Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MYSTERY OF ROMMEL'S RETREAT

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Published: Thursday 19 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VICHY HELP TO ROMMEL

... VICHY HELP TO ROMMEL Olive Oil And Petrol THOUSANDS OF TONS SUPPLIES shipped surreptitiously from France to Tunisia during recent months for Gen. Rommel's forces in Libya include 3,500 tons of gasolene, 2,000 tons of aviation spirit, and thousands of ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NAZI BASES IN GREECE

... replaced by Bulgarians. These reports, true, suggest that Hitler is intent on turning Rommel's thrust into a major offensive before the summer. Germans ai e boasting that Rommel will be in Suez in a fortnight Such boasts have been heard before, and do not impress ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LATE NEWS

... salvage merchants. STRONG L.S. NOTE to A strong United States Note on the subject of war supplies French origin sent to Gen. Rommel has been delivered in Vichy, said a Washington message last night. The Jfote is stated to have beer, delivered Marshal Petain ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Gazala Still In Our Hands

... of Gazala, British air patrols and mobile columns nowhere encountered Rommel's men in force on Saturday. The Cairo G.H.Q. communique, reporting this, refutes Axis claims that Rommel's advanced forces had reached Gazala, 30 miles west of Tobruk, on the ...

Published: Monday 09 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RAID FOILED BY R.A.F

... Cairo say s Free French and Polish troops, together with South Africans, are helping men from the United Kingdom to hold back Rommel in the Gazalat-Tmimi- Mekili area, where the situation continues to be stabilized. Although patrolling there is not on a major ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WAR

... THE WAR Rommel's Army Reinforced 127 th WEEK OF WAR. JT is apparent that Rommel has received reinforcements, especially an Italian armoured division, and the British withdrawal in the. Libya Coast area west of Cyrene, continues. At the s ?-7? e lme our ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 525 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ROYALS RAID MSUS

... patrols, it states, fought an artillery duel with enemy units east of the Tmimi-Mekili track, forcing the enemy to withdraw. Rommel appears to hold Mekili itself in-considerable strength. In the air improved weather conditions enabled R.A.F. fighters to ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WAR

... Council met in London on Tuesday, with Mr. Churchill in the chair. America is inquiring of Vichy respecting the belief that Rommel, in Libya, is receiving supplies presumably sent by Vichy for the French forces in North Africa. British naval torpedo-bombers ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1942
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WAR

... Japanese ships and 'planes, and did great damage to shore defences. There have been heavy enemy losses in the Philippines. Rommel has nearly reached Maraua (27 miles east of Barce), but his flank is open to attack. The British Fleet Arm have sunk more ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1942
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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