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Thrice before, the Axis had struck eastward across North Africa, twice before the British had counter-driven to the west. Now for the fourth time the Axis attacked. From tank parks south of Derna, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazis' smartest desert general, sent his divisions toward the Allied post at Bir Hacheim south of Tobruk. While Italian tanks made a holding attack on the post and were beaten off by Free French defenders with a loss of 35 Axis machines, 250 German tanks made an end run clear around Bir Hacheim, veered north toward the coast and Tobruk...
Sumadija. When Hitler's Stukas bombed Belgrade on April 6, 1941, Mihailovich had a coastal command in Herzegovina. As the Nazis overwhelmed General Dusan Simovich's bravely fighting army, Mihailovich retreated eastward into mountainous Sumadija, where Serbia had long fought the Turks. Thousands of disbanded or unmobilized Yugoslavian troops joined him, bringing their arms and equipment. The force was swelled by peasants and mountaineers...
...Libyan desert was loud with the clatter of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Panzers moving eastward...
...Germans would have preferred to ignore the British air front-if they could. One lone Nazi plane threaded its way eastward past the swarms of eastbound Britishers, dropped a stick of bombs on southeast England, hurt one person. Casualties in Britain from German bombs for all of February: 22 dead, 21 injured...
From strategic military areas all racial Japanese including Nisei, must go first. From less important zones, evacuation will be gradual, and voluntary - for a while. About April 15, the screw will probably be turned: slow-moving Japs will be sped eastward. Impractical, said General DeWitt, were immediate mass evacuations. Germans and Italians over 70 years of age, or any who have sons or brothers serving in the U.S. armed forces, will not be required to move unless suspicion touches them. But all Japs, no matter how old, must leave the Coast-even if they have sons in the Army...