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...hand or enveloped, Dakar to the south of Casablanca could safely be left for later disposal, and the larger objectives of the U.S. entry into North Africa could unfold: first the joining of the U.S. forces in the northwest with the British in Libya, then the destruction of the Afrika Korps, the re-establishment of Allied mastery over the southern Mediterranean and finally assault on southern Europe...
While units of the British armor hacked and widened the breach, advance units roared on, swung north to cut off the columns of the Afrika Korps retreating pell mell along the coast. Abandoned by their allies, left stranded in the south, Italian divisions fought hopelessly, finally quit (see p. 31). The British did not even bother to round them up. Their main objective was the Afrika Korps...
...Cairo censors allowed correspondents to suggest that the defeat of the Afrika Korps was an indispensable preliminary to invasion of southern Europe...
...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...
...Sturm, Schwung, Wucht." And so it looked this week. Rommel began his action with feints towards the north, then a jab at the southern front. With his entire Afrika Korps of four divisions-tank columns and light infantry-he swept along the edge of the Qattara Depression, struck at the British lines, penetrated some distance into British mine fields, swung toward the seacoast. This was Rommel's Sturm, Schwung, Wucht.* The operation was reminiscent of the wide sweep he had made around Bir Hachéim in May. But Alexander and Montgomery were ready for him. They had learned...