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THE BATTLEGROUND OF EL ALAMEIN, Where the 8th Army Held Rommel's Forces

... ALAMEIN, Where the 8th Army Held Rommel's Forces The opening days of July were full of fate for the Allied forces In Northern Africa. On the first day of the month General Auchinleck met the armoured assault of General Rommel's forces on a terrain which was ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 682 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

BOMBS ON GENOA: The Port from which Rommel in North Africa is Reinforced

... BOMBS ON GENOA The Port from which Rommel in North Africa is Reinforced ^enoa is the North Italian port from which supplies and reinforcements are shipped to the Axis forces in North Africa. These official Air Ministry pictures were taken after the raids ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

ROMMEL'S COUNTER-THRUST INTO THE MEDENINE AREA: Before the Great Offensive by Montgomery on March 20

... ^/^fter Rommel had been ejected from Tripolitania, the spearhead of the Eighth Army an armoured regiment, with infantry of the Buffs and gunners in support crossed the frontier with little difficulty and pushed on to the town of Ben Gardene, 15 miles ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1006 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

ROMMEL'S ATTACK in TUNISIA: Held by the Guards in the Sbiba district, with the help of the guns and Churchill tanks

... ROMMEL'S ATTACK in TUNISIA Held by the Guards in the Sbiba district, with the help of the guns and Churchill tanks- rhe action of the Guards here illustrated took place in the district of Sbiba, a position on the south-eastern slopes of the Zeugitane ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

FREAKS of the DESERT ARTILLERY: How Our Gunners Overcame Great Difficulties to Hold Rommel at Bay

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3468 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Rommel on the Screen: Eric von Stroheim as the Afrika Korps Field Marshal in Five Graves to Cairo

... that the Five Graves are munition dumps prepared before the war by Rommel himself in the guise of an archaeologist Rommel at His Headquarters When three British officers are brought in Rommel regales them with lectures on military strategy and supplies. The ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 317 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

LEADERSHIP IS HALF THE BATTLE: The Example of Rommel is Now Before Us, and the Whole Question of Leadership in ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1874 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK: General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re ..

... BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re-established Special Sphere Diagrams On right When the two to three days of recuperation had passed, British patrols began to break out northwards ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1973 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs