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...apparently planned to be in Moscow early in the autumn, firmly entrenched before winter set in. He had relied on an attack of paralyzing speed-an aerially supported striking force of first four, then five, large Panzer Armies, followed by supporting infantry forces of Axis and Axis-allied troops...
...Owing to the great expenditure of fuel on the Eastern Front the liquid fuel situation of the Reich is exceptionally stringent. The fuel allowance for Panzer Gruppe Afrika accordingly has been severely cut down. In particular we can no longer expect that liquid fuel lost by enemy action will be made good...
...phony war and the first Mediterranean fighting. Last April, kicked out by the Fascists, he crossed to Yugoslavia, just in time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
Naturally enough, Russian spokesmen beamed and spoke up. They claimed that General von Kleist had thrown away nine divisions: the 13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would...
...hoped-for successes, bottling the German tank forces and then destroying them, were at least postponed by the same act of cutting. It was accomplished by a convergence on Sidi Rézegh, southeast of Tobruk, of the three main Axis tank forces-Germany's 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions, Italy's Battering Ram Division...