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A FRENCH ARMY IN AFRICA RE-ENACTS ROMMEL'S KASSERINE BATTLE: During the Recent Manœuvres in Tunisia and Algeria

... A FRENCH ARMY IN AFRICA RE-ENACTS ROMMEL'S KASSERINE BATTLE During the Recent Manoeuvres in Tunisia and Algeria THE TUNISIAN SPAHIS ON THEIR ARAB PONIES PROVIDE A DRAMATIC FINALE TO THE FRENCH ARMY MANCEUVRES IN NORTH AFRICA A detachment parading in the ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 245 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

PERSONALITIES: AUSTRIA'S NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER--THE C.L.G.S. HONOURED--MR. CHURCHIL'S GUESTS--MANFRED ROMMEL IN ..

... LATE FIELD MARSHAL ROMMEL'S SON ARRIVES IN LONDON: Manfred Rommel, a law student at Ulm, in the American Zone of Germany, with General Fritx Bayerlein, his father's former Chief of Staff, seen together at Northolt Airport. Manfred Rommel is here to discuss ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 406 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PURSUIT OF ROMMEL'S FLEEING ARMY IN EGYPT: Recently-arrived Pictures which Demonstrate the Disorganisation ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 348 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AMERICAN-BUILT GENERAL GRANT TANK, WHOSE GREAT HITTING POWER IN THE LIBYAN DESERT PROVIDED ROMMEL WITH ONE ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

EL ALAMEIN MEMORIALS: The Newly Opened German Memorial Joins the British and Italian Monuments

... containing the remains of 4,200 German soldiers who died during the battle. Frau Rommel, widow of the Afrika Korps commander, I Field-Marshal Rommel, and his sister, Lucie Rommel, were among those who attended the ceremony. General von Liebenstein repre sented ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 486 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BOGEYMAN OF THE WESTERN DESERT

... after replacing the Eighth Army field commander at a moment when Rommel's dash and fire had halted the British attack and all seemed confusion, alarm and chaos. Montgomery, who finally saw Rommel off the premises, heavily out numbered and outgunned him at ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 530 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BATTLEFIELD OF LIBYA

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

ADMIRAL ON A GOOD-WILL TOUR

... Commando raid on Rommel's H.Q. in North Africa in 1941. He said that he regretted he had been unable to thank Rommel for his generous behaviour on that occasion. Colonel Keyes went to kill him, and did kill four of his staff officers, but Rommel accorded him ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The FIGHTING AREA around the MARETH LINE and GAFSA: Where the Eighth Army and the American Forces have Opened ..

... opening of the battle On right-- WHAT HAPPENED AFTER ROMMEL LAUNCHED HIS ABORTIVE ATTACK on the Eighth Army in the Medenine region. On March 5, realising that a heavy onslaught by our forces was imminent, Rommel tried to put the Eighth Army on the wrong foot ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 545 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

GERMANY CALLING!: Old Soldiers of the Afrika Korps Re-unite in Iserlohn; Albert Schweitzer Honoured; Lawyers on ..

... ERWIN ROMMEL Manfred Rommel, son of the late Field Marshal Frau Rommel, the widow Frau Muencheberg, mother of a German ace fighter-pilot killed in action in Africa, and ex-General Ludwig Cruewell at the Afrika Korps reunion at Iserlohn. Frau Rommel wore ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 434 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The TALE of TOBRUK

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1661 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BATTLE IN THE LIBYAN DESERT: Where the Great Clash Between the British and German Armoured Forces is Now ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1423 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs