Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the attack pendulum swung back to the Caen sector, where the British Second Army jumped off in a new offensive on a nine-mile front southwest of Caen. The drive punched ahead for two and a half miles, then slowed as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved five divisions to stave off a breakthrough. German headquarters said the fighting might soon reach a new high of intensity and decide the fate of the Norman front...
...beaches nor hurled back into the sea by the man specifically picked for the job 27 months ago; 2) despite his high professional standing, Rundstedt had long been considered politically unsound from the Nazi point of view; 3) he and his field commander, the Nazi favorite Marshal Erwin Rommel, had disagreed sharply on tactics...
...Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, will present two lectures on the history of maps this week. The first of the illustrated lectures will be given tomorrow in the Auditorium of the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 2 o'clock, while the second will be presented Friday at the same time and place...
...General Dies. During the week the German field commander, Colonel General Friedrich Dollmann, was killed in action, and tough, arrogant Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was reported to have taken personal command of the Nazi troops. That suited Montgomery down to the ground. Monty had met Rommel before...
Enough dust swirled over the tank-churned roads of Normandy to remind ex-Desert Fox Erwin Rommel of Africa. But there the resemblance ended. There was no room among the copses, apple orchards, and hedge-crossed fields of Calvados for the great sweeps of "land battleships" that Rommel had used in the wastes of Libya...