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...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...
...deal with during and immediately after the invasion-that was still, said Washington, strictly General Dwight D. Eisenhower's business. Last week that overburdened officer had to turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim and the De Gaulle Government's military envoy in London. At week's end a hitch occurred. The Committee protested against Britain's diplomatic-code ban, maintained that under pre-invasion restrictions of communications' and travel the conversations "cannot be usefully pursued...
...columns and light infantry-he swept along the edge of the Qattara Depression, struck at the British lines, penetrated some distance into British mine fields, swung toward the seacoast. This was Rommel's Sturm, Schwung, Wucht.* The operation was reminiscent of the wide sweep he had made around Bir Hachéim in May. But Alexander and Montgomery were ready for him. They had learned some lessons about desert warfare...
...Vulnerable weapons are not necessarily useless. Example: aircraft carriers. Let not Reader Cook forget that Field Marshal Rommel might never have got beyond Libya had not dive-bombers blasted the way for the capture of Bir Hacheim and Tobruk...
Rommel's success in the recent Battle of Libya began with a miscalculation. He sent his tanks south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...