Word: hemeimat
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...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...
Before the battle of El Hemeimat, Britain's chances of holding Rommel in the desert had seemed desperately scant. In Rommel's last attack the Eighth Army had lost more than 80,000 men, to say nothing of huge amounts of munitions and supplies which Rommel had confiscated and put to his own use. The army had been driven 400 miles back, was disorganized and discouraged. Then...
...attack began with a tentative push against El Hemeimat, 25 miles south of El Alamein. Early this week it was not clear what Rommel intended or where the main force of his drive would center...
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