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...Dark Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...
...Hitler cannot soon replace his losses in Egypt and Libya; he may not even try. Of 500 tanks on the Alamein front, Rommel had probably rescued fewer than 50. His casualties already exceeded 75,000 men and the whole Afrika Korps faced extinction...
Throughout the whole battle area, from the El Alamein line to Mersa Matrûh, large pockets of Italian soldiers, abandoned to their fate, wearily sought some British soldier or some British unit to take them back to prisoners' camp where they would get bully-beef and biscuits, but more than anything else a pint of water per man. When rain fortunately fell the other day, these bunches of Italians turned their faces to the sky and allowed the cooling blessing from heaven to trickle down their throats...
...piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line. Hell broke over El Alamein: from hundreds of hidden positions artillery laid down the heaviest barrage yet seen in the desert. After six hours infantrymen moved toward the Germans' shattered positions. R.A.F. bombers and fighters attacked with the ground forces. The advance units found their way through their own minefields, marched gingerly into the German fields. Soon lights began to twinkle close to the ground: they were guttering flames in gasoline tins, marking alleys through the German fields for the main body of troops and tanks...
...winner at El Alamein would be, in all probability, the victor of North Africa, for victory could be won only with the destruction of the loser's main forces. Rather than lose his hope of destroying the Axis forces, Montgomery was undoubtedly prepared to draw back if the Rommel line was too strong. In that event there would be no victor; there would be another stalemate. On the third day of assault the British had neither drawn back nor advanced very far. Nor had General Montgomery seen fit to amend his order of the first day: "Destroy Rommel...