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...daylight spread. At the assigned hour, all units moved. Motors roared. The force facing Maktila and Sidi Barrani made a great noise of gunfire and show. More quietly, holding fire, the second force to the south of Sidi Barrani swung in to attack Italian camps on the desert flank. A third force farther west headed hard for the coast near Buqbuq...
...bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right to Tripoli. For hours the Italians could only guess what was happening. At the same time the British Fleet swung in to bombard Maktila, Sidi Barrani and the Italians' road to the rear. The Italians were attacked simultaneously from the right (land) flank by tanks, from the left (sea) flank by the fleet, from the top (air) flank...
Finally Judge Yule stepped forward, patted "Sargo's" flank. The crowd gave a whoop of delight. Yule mopped his brow and crammed a cigar into his mouth. He was later heard to declare: "I think maybe the Hereford had a little more cover on the loin...
...military reverses. These were serious indeed. Its sea power disgraced when half its battleship force was crippled at anchor in Taranto harbor, its armies now definitely stalemated in Egypt, its Greek offensive in reverse, Italy showed herself in her true aspect-Germany's supply-starved, dangerously inept southern flank. Crippled, Italy invited even more vicious blows from the British, and the British could be expected to deliver them full measure...
...Stennett Amery put the brightest of all faces on the historic stand of Greece. Said he: "If we can enable Greece to hold her own until we have disposed of the Italians in Egypt, we shall have secured for our armies a foothold from which we might threaten the flank of any German attack on Turkey...