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... AN AMAZING PICTURE FROM EGYPT WHICH GOES TO EXPLAIN THE PRESENT PLIGHT OF ROMMEL'S AFRICAN ARMY A close-up view from the air or the amazing melee at Halfaya Pass caused by the bombing of the retreating Axis transport columns This photograph has just been ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

WAY OF THE WAR: Retreat

... beach at Dunkirk. The question arises, can Rommel organise a Dunkirk for his men or will he be compelled to make a stand as at Stalingrad, where Hitler ordered the German Sixth Army to fight to the last man Rommel can retreat to the mountains around Bizerta ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1865 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

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... desert is easily worked, and in places is well adapted for the task of sheltering men and stores On left Despite that General Rommel declared in an Order of the Day on the eve of his offensive that he possessed a superiority in numbers, with a perfected equipment ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 702 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

PICTURES from EGYPT: Where the 8th Army and the Axis Forces have Once Again been Engaged in Heavy Fighting

... during an attack by light bombers on a concentration of Rommel's motor transport. Vehicles which have escaped the full force of the bombs are seen as tiny specks amidst the sand. By day and by night Rommel's supply lines are being pounded in this fashion SPYING ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

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... THE 8TH ARMY IN LIBYA, NOW LOCKED IN BATTLE WITH ROMMEL'S FORCES IN THE DESERT: LIEUT .-GENERAL N. M. RITCHIE GREETING THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER DURING THE LATTER'S TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST Mow that Rommel has launched his long-expected attack, the British ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 239 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

The CAPTURE of TRIPOLI: On January 23, 1943, by the Eighth Army Under General Montgomery

... Eighth Army Under General Montgomery WHEN the Eighth Army advanced from the Wady Zemzem against the fleeing forces of Marshal Rommel, the attack was split up by General Montgomery into three columns. One of these pressed along the main tarmac road to Horns ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 494 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT STRUGGLE for the MARETH LINE: And the Turning Movement of the Eighth Army towards El Hamma

... for re-forming, renewed assaults were made upon Rommel s bastions, and, coupled with the success of the flanking movement against El Hamma, the whole position was eventually recaptured. Below THE ROMMEL DEFENSIVE AREA AROUND MARETH shown as a conventional ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

PRISONERS IN INDO-CHTNA: And News of Other Events Throughout the World

... months ago. fRAU ROMMEL GOES TO THE PICTURES WITH NEGUIB In Cairo, the widow of Field-Marshal Rommel, Commander of the Afrika Korps, is seen with President Neguib at a gala per formance of the German documentary film, This Was Our Rommel. On the other side ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 962 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

The R.A.F. take over CAPTURED LIBYAN AIRFIELDS

... the landing-ground at this point before advanced R.A.F. aircraft arrived to take it over to continue their offensive against Rommel ANTI-TANK MINES GATHERED BEHIND BARBED WIRE AT MARBLE ARCH Step by step the R.A.F. have kept pace with the Eighth Army during ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

LIBYAN PORTFOLIO

... Special Drawings and Photographs, in Illustration of the Present Campaign Against Rommel's Forces in the Western Desert It was on the evening of May 26 that General Rommel launched the German Afrika Korps to the attack of the British forces on the Gazala-Bir ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1211 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

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... PART OF THE FINEST FIGHTING FORCE THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN: A picture of a group of these tough warriors who have pursued Rommel from Egypt to the outskirts of Tunis From all over the world during the past few weeks has come a perfect chorus of praise ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs