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Thumbs Up. Whether or not the offensive could continue, the R.A.F. had, in the Battle of Germany, restored the British offensive spirit. That incredible spirit had flagged after Greece and Crete. Parliament had begun to carp at Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic had had the whole people depressed. Bombings had grown hard to take...
...Libya, Greece, Crete and Syria, said Lieut. Brabner, military operations had been dangerously hung up by lack of supplies; 70% to 80% of British tanks in Greece had broken down before they got to the front lines...
...Malemi in Crete, where he was stationed, "we were rarely in a position to put more than two aircraft into the air for a continuous patrol during daylight hours." The anti-aircraft guns protecting the airport were without protection themselves, were quickly put out of action by Stukas...
Short Kick. Archie Wavell was plumb wore out. He had run the Italians out of Libya and East Africa, had had his men run out of Greece and Crete, had sent some mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters...
...many war tasks, Army and Navy forces must work together (as the British tragically learned in Crete, where their land, naval and air units seemed to be fighting three separate wars). The U.S. Army and Navy as yet have no satisfactory provision for coordinated command and joint staff work in such tasks. But General Marshall indicated last week that real Army-Navy cooperation is nearer than it ever was before...