Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope and Pride. The British Second is now the most fully rested of Eisenhower's seasoned armies. Direct offspring of Britain's famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...
...year in which the outcome-the question of who would win and who would lose-still dangled precariously in the balance. The trend of the war had been reversed in 1942 at Stalingrad and El Alamein. By early 1944 the U.S. was almost fully armed-thanks mainly to the Man of 1943, General George Catlett Marshall...
...scale war. In one day he lured 300 British tanks into almost total destruction. In another day he overwhelmed the British stronghold of Tobruk. He tied up much of Britain's military strength and leaders for nearly two years and at his peak he stood at El Alamein, 65 miles from Alexandria...
Trail of Defeat. Then Rommel and his Afrika Korps began the downhill trail which many a good general has trod. He was soundly defeated at El Alamein by an even abler general-Sir Bernard L. Montgomery-and by a superiority of power. Even so, his 1,500-mile retreat across North Africa to Tunisia was masterly. Had his career ended then, he might have been one of military history's heroes...
...they had been at El Alamein, Mareth, Enfidaville and Italy's Gustaf Line, the Germans were entrenched again. Now it was the Gothic Line, a complex of concrete pillboxes behind a maze of mine fields and barbed wire entanglements north of Italy's Arno River. Manning the positions were twelve divisions of stubborn Huns commanded by able Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Their orders: to hold until the last day of summer...