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...littered trail: ledgers, military manuals, permits for furloughs, letters from home; tins of Danish hams, Norwegian herring, Dutch sausages, French wines, Munich beer; trumpets, tubas, drums (to be used in Rommel's triumphal procession into Alexandria) ; women's underwear, silk stockings, cosmetics; brandy and champagne; arms, cannon, machinery, tanks; trucks trapped by sudden rains that had turned the marshlands around Buqbuq into seas of mud. Beside the coast road lay the German dead, grey faces hidden by the peaked caps of the Afrika Korps. Beside them lay their Italian allies, men with stiff beards pointed upward...
Nourished by longer but better guarded lines, the Eighth Army had grown apace. From Britain had come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
...Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...
...larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon and two machine guns when flying against tanks, two 20-mm. cannon and two machine guns at other times...
...cross the Caucasus the Nazis will need lots of motorcycle cats. The Gelandegangige Fahrzug carries three men with cannon and machine guns. Its close tracks and motorcycle steering are for special use by Alpine troops on narrow, twisting mountain trails, have also served well in Russian...