Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Army as a whole is greener to the desert than it used to be. Its veteran core-upward of 50,000 leathery Australians-was called back to defend its homeland...
...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...
Rommel Remains. This was all very well, but the object of modern desert war is to destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...
Among military men Rommel is now variously appraised as: 1) a bold and brilliant desert commander who makes mistakes like any other; 2) the best armored-force general of World War II; 3) one of the great military commanders of modern times. The outcome of the battle for Egypt and the Middle East may well settle Rommel's place in history...
Hothouse Training. When Hitler decided in 1940 to put Rommel in charge of the Afrika Korps and send him to strengthen the stumbling Italians in Libya, Rommel began to train the kind of army that could fight a successful desert...