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Twelve days later his Eighth Army, after some of the bitterest fighting that Egypt had seen, had cracked the Afrika Korps...
...abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast as he did was a wonder of modern...
...destroyed the Rommel myth. Crowed the Eighth Army's official magazine: "[Rommel] lost his old dash, was badly rattled, and could devise no plan. The legend of the invincible Afrika Korps and Panzer forces has been shattered." But Montgomery did not destroy Rommel, as in his supreme confidence he had announced three months ago he was about to do. Rommel probably saved some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with...
Early last week correspondents motored at their peril on a road near Beurát-el-Hsun, between the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps' line east of Tripoli. Late in the week the same correspondents, venturing out again, saw signs left by British sappers: "Road free of mines as far as three miles east of Beaur...
...Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south of Tripoli. They still had 350 miles to go before they could reach the battered but unshattered Afrika Korps...