Word: afrika
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...weatherbeaten West Pointer, the 4th will find itself very often working from 4 in the morning until dark. There will be plenty of all-night alerts. All combat units will spend grueling weeks at Grafenwohr, a 100-square-mile training ground on the Czech border, where Hitler trained his Afrika Korps...
...World War II battle commanders to become a legendary figure while the fight was still on was the Germans' stocky, colorful tank expert, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. At home he was idolized. In the field his Afrika Korps fought for him with matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged...
...Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
...prison camp they are painfully disappointed. The older prisoners, Afrika Korps veterans, scorn the Cassino captives as traitors and. cowards. A shadow Gestapo, working under the inexperienced eyes of the U.S. guards, rules the prisoners through terror. When the anti-Nazis appeal for protection...
...swarms of sightseers climbed the monument's steps to gaze reverently at the bas-reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...