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Hothouse Training. When Hitler decided in 1940 to put Rommel in charge of the Afrika Korps and send him to strengthen the stumbling Italians in Libya, Rommel began to train the kind of army that could fight a successful desert...
...Cyrenaica sunburned, sand-scoured soldiers of the Afrika Korps and the British Imperial forces did no more than skirmish on a line some 60 miles southwest of Tobruk. Both sides were busy getting a toe hold, bringing up supplies and reinforcements. Both air forces pounded away at each other's supply lines...
Still undecided about the final explanation for the concentrated attacks, London hinted at invasion last week. But with General Erwin Rommel hanging on in Libya by the skin of his gritty teeth, the bombings probably covered a concerted German effort to get reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
General Erwin Rommel squeezed the remnants of his Afrika Korps out of a tight spot last week. After waiting desperately for reinforcements to support his stand at Agedábia, Rommel, under cover of a sand storm, beat a successful 100-mile retreat to el-Aghéila, southwest of Agedábia-closer to his own base and source of reinforcements. The storm was so bad that British mobile units could not keep up with him. Once again Rommel had shown smart generalship in coping with a superior enemy...
...Owing to the great expenditure of fuel on the Eastern Front the liquid fuel situation of the Reich is exceptionally stringent. The fuel allowance for Panzer Gruppe Afrika accordingly has been severely cut down. In particular we can no longer expect that liquid fuel lost by enemy action will be made good...