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Rommel, who is never blind, sensed the move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...
Folklore. In Kansas City, Dr. Richard H. Freyberg, researcher in arthritis, declared that aches in the joints were no good as weather forecasters. In Midland Park, N.J., Henry John Mulder, who had always gone to bed at 6 p.m., risen at 5:30 a.m., reached the age of 100, healthy and in his right mind, but still not wealthy...
...Marshal Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. Middle East Commander, and Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commanding New Zealand forces-Knight Commander of the Bath...
...Force hospital and quoted him ironically: "Many of the Tommies showed true soldierly spirit even toward their German prisoners. A British Army sergeant captured by us promptly assisted us in treating our wounded." As a sort of reprisal the Germans announced that Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commander of Crete's defenses, had been killed while "cravenly" attempting to flee Crete in a plane; the British denied...
...comparatively ill-equipped airports if these are subjected to high-scale enemy air attack." So, the condition on which all who fought in Greece blamed the defeat there, now obtained in Crete: there were no defending R.A.F. planes to be seen. And on Wednesday and Thursday, although "Tiny" Freyberg said his men were "fighting with splendid courage," they lost the island's three key points: Candia, Rethymno, Canea (including Malemi Airfield...