Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From el-Aghéila on the Gulf of Sidra, 360 miles by road from the Egyptian border, granite-jawed General Erwin Rommel turned on the harrying British desert fighters and lashed fiercely with an armored paw. The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot...
Still undecided about the final explanation for the concentrated attacks, London hinted at invasion last week. But with General Erwin Rommel hanging on in Libya by the skin of his gritty teeth, the bombings probably covered a concerted German effort to get reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
...General Erwin Rommel squeezed the remnants of his Afrika Korps out of a tight spot last week. After waiting desperately for reinforcements to support his stand at Agedábia, Rommel, under cover of a sand storm, beat a successful 100-mile retreat to el-Aghéila, southwest of Agedábia-closer to his own base and source of reinforcements. The storm was so bad that British mobile units could not keep up with him. Once again Rommel had shown smart generalship in coping with a superior enemy...
...most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines. Their object: to destroy the enemy's leadership, in particular Nazi General Erwin Rommel...
...desert rains came last week Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's tactical units were still waiting to do final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted...