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...R.A.F. and their U.S. and Empire allies looked strongest in the air. One day they knocked off 16 Stukas, eleven Messerschmitts and a lone Italian Macchi. Another day they wrecked 50 Axis supply trucks. Every night, on Tobruk, Bengasi, even Tripoli, British and U.S. bombers staged the most massive raids the desert battleground has ever known. One flyer compared the destruction in Bengasi to that in Cologne...
...wrath, but they admire him. They have coined a new word: they say that a fallen British stronghold is gerommelt. He is also not above playing on them with false propaganda. Last winter, when Rommel had overstretched his supply lines and the British were rolling him back to Bengasi, he signaled his soldiers: "Don't let our men in Russia down. They have just taken Moscow." Last month, when Bir Hachėim held out longer than he expected, he rode among his tanks and infantry, bellowing: "Men of the Afrika Korps, be of good heart. Our glorious...
...Goebbels cabled Bengasi for all the eyewitnesses the traffic would bear. Soon a squadron of Messerschmitt 110s from Africa settled down on Berlin's Staaken Airfield, unloaded bags of stories, pictures and records made by field microphonists, for whose transmission the German radio canceled a whole day's program. From one Messerschmitt stepped German War Reporter Lutz Koch, his face still grimy with African sand, bearing a story which the newspapers titled Yesterday I Was With Rommel...
...palpable suggestion that, despite the desert's dust and heat, Rommel would strike soon from his bases where the great headland swings out to the sea on the Gulf of Sidra. The suggestion was not lost on the British. Their pilots bombed the German base at Bengasi daily; ranging through the desert storms over the German positions, they fought daily dogfights over waterless wastes...
...coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing in it but words-then I dash to the radio to turn it up and find out who's got Bengasi...