Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office had apparently fumbled commanders again. In the fusty voice of an "official spokesman." London announced last week that Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, Commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...
When General Cunningham took over the forces for the offensive, they had been placed in excellent position. But the moment the offensive began, plans went haywire, as they often...
...early this week to say exactly where Cunningham failed or whether it was really he who really failed. Presumably his general and local tactics had failed in battle. It was General Auchinleck's plan to have the Germans cut off from their supplies, retreat, then destroy them...
Timing of the various column movements was vital to such a plan. It was important that Cunningham get his forces around the Axis coast positions in time to cooperate with the southern forces that made the dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun...
...Lowe award is the latest in the list of citations which the stellar Crimson left guard has garnered. Yesterday he was placed on two more All-American elevens, those of Bill Cunningham in the Herald, and Mr. "Z" in the Record...