Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within reach of his sand-scarred hands Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had the greatest war prize since the Japanese took the Dutch East Indies. If he lays his hands on Alexandria, already within easy bombing range of his forward bases, the Mediterranean will belong to the Axis. Give him Suez, and he will have opened the gate of the Near East, to the Axis...
Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, El Adem, Acroma. Germany's Erwin Rommel was 200 miles to the east, rolling into Matr...
Brains still win, and the Germans had the best brains. A World War I subaltern in the Kaiser's Armies, who later became Hitler's personal thug, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has become one of the most competent soldiers of his time...
...British it was utter, humiliating defeat. Tobruk, the same battle-scarred port that last year held out for eight months against Axis besiegers, succumbed to one day's attack. Tobruk fell quickly, squashily, to the planes, tanks and guns of Germany's Erwin Rommel. The Axis announced that it took 28,000 Allied prisoners in the garrison, including "several generals." This was indirectly confirmed by a British report which said that Axis shelling prevented any substantial rescue...
...Editor, War News, San Francisco News; James P. Etheridge, Jr., Editorial writer, Tampa Daily Times, Tampa Florida; Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., Assistant City Editor, Seattle Times; Ernest M. Hill, Political writer and state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock...