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... burned by the nearest British unit whenever possible, to prevent spare parts likely to be of use from falling into the hands of Rommel's men. This Stuka was set alight with petrol the swastika from the tail was probably removed as a trophy empty ammunition-drums ...
... or Rommel to be supplied with an overwhelm ingly strong force of new tanks for a break-through to be quickly achieved and the battle to go streaking away once morg. (In which connection we must be particularly wary of a sudden attempt by Rommel to sweep ...
... explan ations why air-borne troops have not been used much, if at all, in Libya and Egypt. Even where, as the reports state, Rommel has been reinforcing his forward troops by air landings just behind his front positions, it does not mean he has been able ...
... THE ALAMEIN AREA: The arrival of the New Zealanders in] the Egyptian desert was immensely heartening in the dark days when Rommel was racing towards Alexandria they put up a fine show around Mersa Matruh, in particular, where General Freyberg, V.C., their ...
... appear to play cricket, it is wise to smell a rat. Here M. Masaryk is on firmer ground in warning about Rommel. I have been told, he says, that Rommel fights in a gentlemanly way. Do not be misled. If it suits him, as one of Hitler's gangsters, to pretend ...
... tanks come more infantry on foot, to consolidate whatever gain the tanks might achieve. This system has also been employed by Rommel in Egypt. It has been stated that the size of some of the new Soviet tanks has taken the Germans quite by surprise some of ...
... between our gunners and theirs. The Australian 25 pounders looked like dragons spitting defiance with fiery tongues. WHERE ROMMEL BEGAN TO DIG IN TOWARDS THE END OF JULY AND WHERE HE FRUSTRATED GENERAL AUCHINLECK'S OFFENSIVE PLANS The British and enemy ...
... BER AT WORK, attacking German tanks with bombs and cannon-guns during the desert fighting Drawing by Roland Davies During Rommel's heavy and sustained efforts to reduce the salients which had been driven into his line along the Alamein front, fighter-bombers ...
... or retire in defence, or through which infantry with support tanks can advance against a strong-point. Both our tanks and Rommel's have had to be extremely careful of smoke as a two-edged weapon. Once those sand- and dust-storms begin to rage there is ...
... the Nazis. Malta is, and has been since Italy's entry into the war, a sharp thorn in the side of the Axis the more so since Rommel's need for reinforce ments in North Africa became so vital. With the Island in British hands, it has served as a base for ...
... dwelling- places erected on the flat ground near by. By the dispersal of his forces in the manner referred to here, it may be that Rommel is considering some method of outflanking the 8th Army at the Alamein line but it is difficult to see how this could be a ...
... direction of most of the possible German objectives. Though fighting may continue here for many months yet, it mav be that, as in Rommel's attack on EevDt. thev will eet far. but not far enough. W. V. F. THE FLAT PLAINS WHICH LEAD TO STALINGRAD, the flattest ...