Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This double use of air power was not suddenly invented in the last fortnight. It was in evidence at El Alamein. It had been developing for a long time, ever since the inferior Allies had withdrawn on many fronts under Stuka harassment. It was an elaboration of German methods (which have long stressed the tactical air force) and an amalgam of U.S. and British methods...
After Rommel's attack on the Alamein line in August had been turned back, Allied planes began a campaign of strategic bombing. They blasted Rommel's transport columns, bases, shipping. Then, in a second phase, Coningham stepped up his operations until he was conducting an all-out air offensive. He knocked out the Luftwaffe. The onslaught was independent of and preceded by two weeks General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's ground attack. But when Montgomery's Eighth hit, air and ground were immediately coordinated in the third phase. Coningham's bombers pounded rear lines while...
Success in Fluidity? All this suggested that the Germans on the southern front had been forced to go over (as Rommel did when he left El Alamein) from rigid to elastic defense. They had been forced to do so because of the Russian mastery of winter tactics and because of their own fear of encirclement...
...when he broke through at El Alamein, trucks of General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell's service of supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...
...Road Montgomery has achieved an adaptation of a classic situation: he has the devil between him and the deep. And there he may have to fight another battle as bitter as that which he fought at El Alamein where the Road began...