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...Despite continual bombing by British and U.S. planes, Tobruk and Bengasi were still open ports, through which a stream of men and supplies flowed from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Intestinal Divination | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Rommel, by contrast, can draw reinforcements from home in a fortnight. British submarines reported attacking Axis supply ships at sea. British bombers reported attacking more such ships-not only at Bengasi, as before, but in Tobruk harbor and even at Matrūh, only 100 miles behind Rommel's lines. In two successive days British fighters reported attacking Junkers air transports, presumably bringing specialists up to Rommel's front lines. The British claimed to have destroyed or damaged 15. How many more made how many trips only Rommel knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: On the One-Yard Line | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...over Rommel's position; 75 P-40s (Kittyhawks) attacked trucks at El Daba; 130 bombers accompanied by 127 fighters raided Rommel's routes and positions; at night 84 Wellingtons, six Blenheims and eight B-24s (Liberators) bombed Rommel's trucks at El Daba and shipping at Bengasi. This week the Royal Navy suddenly returned to action in the Mediterranean, shelled Rommel's base at Matr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: On the One-Yard Line | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Funnel | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Rommel Africanus | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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