Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Erwin Rommel gained one distinction from the last Libyan campaign. He conducted one of the longest retreats in military history. By last week he had traversed 900 miles from his shattered line at El Alamein...
...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...
...sundown (5 p.m.) on the first day out we reached the former no man's land at El Alamein. The entire western half of the area was littered with German and Italian guns and shells, helmets, clothing, food, maps and other things, smashed and torn by the Aussies as they crashed through. All about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with...
...Price of Victory. Though the Nazi losses in the Alamein battle were colossal, the British also paid heavily. Batteries of German 88-mm. guns mowed hundreds of Aussies down before the Germans were driven back for good. But the Aussies proved themselves superior...
...Rewards. West of El Alamein we came to an airfield full of dozens of dispersed Me-109Fs in almost perfect condition. The Luftwaffe had fled in near panic, but its leavings were evidence that Germany is still a long way from exhaustion...