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Under rough and rugged Major General Lewis H. Brereton, the Ninth was formed in the China-Burma-India theater, moved to the Middle East when Rommel banged at the back door of Egypt.* It supported the British Eighth Army as it advanced westward, from El Alamein...
...from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training for a return match next month, expect to fight before 30,000 at the El Alamein Sporting Club...
...troopship going out, Michael Heming scribbled melodies, started to outline a score for a threnody on war. He did more work during the blazing African summer, by autumn had a pocketful of penciled notes. The day before the tide turned at El Alamein, Lieut. Heming was killed in action. His mother found the notes in the packet of his personal things sent home...
...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...that Rommel was pulling out from in front of the Americans to attack us. ... I think the only thing that saved us was our great air superiority. Rommel attacked and you well remember the result. It was the only time we had to fight a defensive battle since leaving Alamein, and it is interesting to note how everyone had forgotten how. ... I even found generals looking up in their textbooks how to fight a defensive battle...