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...defense of Matrûh, the British drew up their line from that port south to the edge of the Qattara Depression-a great under-sea-level wallow bordered by steep limestone scarps and bedded with salt marshes. Even Rommel, they thought, would not try to outflank them by venturing into that...
...that Matrûh fell, TIME received the following cable from its Correspondent Walter Graebner, who had paused in Cairo on his way to Russia...
...British met disaster in Libya, and in the first stages of the battle for Egypt, was something for the U.S. to ponder prayerfully: the U.S. Army has yet to meet and beat the German Army in World War II. And, for British and U.S. military men alike, Libya and Matrûh held many a lesson...
...tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles and made great advances just as Rommel did-by forced marches and surprise attacks when, according to the rules, their armies should have been resting for the next round...
...supply lines in Rommel's immediate rear. British pilots, many of them in U.S. planes, raised hob with such targets. But that was not enough. At the pinch Rommel still had enough tanks, guns and supplies. And he had the dive-bombers to crack Bir Hacheim, Tobruk and Matr...