Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After so many evil tidings, the news looked a little better. Germany's Rommel had chased the broken, retreating British 325 miles in eleven days, had rammed his armored spearheads down the coastal desert from Matrûh, taking the flyspeck towns on the railroad to Alexandria like peas ripped from a pod. Now for four days Rommel had not advanced...
Though a lull continued in the main battle for Egypt, British ground and air patrols hammered relentlessly at the hooked, 55-mile line west of El Alamein, where Marshal Erwin Rommel's German Africa Corps was stalled within 65 miles of the Alexandria Naval Base...
Within reach of his sand-scarred hands Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had the greatest war prize since the Japanese took the Dutch East Indies. If he lays his hands on Alexandria, already within easy bombing range of his forward bases, the Mediterranean will belong to the Axis. Give him Suez, and he will have opened the gate of the Near East, to the Axis...
Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
...British did what the Axis expected them to do. They tried, and failed, to hold the Mediterranean primarily with warships, and they concentrated their Mediterranean aircraft on the defense of Malta. Even now, properly used in the Mediterranean, as many bombers as the British sent over Bremen might make Alexandria and Suez secure...