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...neck, Rommel hesitated, then massed his forces and launched them at El Alamein. Thirteen of his Stukas, dive-bombing the British guns, were crumpled by fighters from South Africa, and the guns kept firing. Meanwhile, from the south a British light force sped around to harry Rommel's flank. After eleven successive days of relentless attack, Rommel's weary battalions had to withdraw to reform and prepare for a new attack...
...mere threat of an offensive based on Suez, the Axis might well force Turkey out of her stubborn neutrality into collaboration with Germany. Then Russia would have the foe on her left flank, within reach of the Caucasian oilfields. But the threat would be greater than that. Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers...
Since February, midtown New Yorkers have looked glumly or angrily out of their west windows at the hulk of the great U.S.S. Lafayette, née Normandie, slumbering sow-like on her left flank in the Hudson River mud. All over the huge, ravaged hull workmen have been clambering, dissecting the dead thing, hauling away in antlike loads the three smokestacks and most of the two upper decks. People thought salvage was under...
...road that was China's lifeline to the fighting wealth of her allies. Now he charged with terrifying speed into the flank of her ragged fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...
...there could be no more logical first move in an attack on the Caucasus than to clean out the Crimea. With the Russians still holding valiantly to Sevastopol and firmly entrenched in the town of Kerch, the German's Black Sea flank would remain insecure. With the Russians out, the Black Sea might be made a channel of communications...