Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erwin Rommel's retreat from El Aghéila had begun with an orderliness that was almost sedate. There was the suspicion that he had already withdrawn the bulk of his army, leaving only enough troops for a bluff. He sprinkled his trail with land mines and booby traps* and loped off along the coast...
...guard. They moved fast and stealthily. Near Wadi Matratin the British sliced in and cut off this Axis tail. Most of the isolated troops were part of a German Panzer division. Mussolini's warriors, left in the lurch at El Alamein, were in the forefront of this latest retreat and far along the coast. In a three-day-long battle some of the Germans succeeded in fighting their way through and tying themselves on again to the main columns. The British catch was not large but it showed that the British pursuit was close...
...from El Aghéila and still pelting on toward Tripoli. He might stop short of that port. He might make a stand there just to keep such a handy harbor and supply base out of General Montgomery's hands. But there were increasing signs that he might retreat all the way to Tunisia...
...first time Rome radio admitted the retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying...
...Bernard Law Montgomery cautiously poked at him, Erwin Rommel had crouched in the bottleneck of El Aghéila, holed up. Montgomery had been in no hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from behind the British lines. Over the Axis position rolled a cloud of some...