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...Cloud by Day. Rommel, through the 13 weeks of the pursuit, kept carefully out of reach. He abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast...
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...pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...
Substitutes In. Rommel's time out had permitted The Auk to rush up fresh reserves of men and matériel from Suez, Palestine, Syria and the rest of the Middle East. But the amount he could bring up was limited by what was available in those quarters. Any major reinforcements, ordered by General Auchinleck since the situation in Egypt became acute, will have to come from Britain or the U.S. and cannot be expected for two or three months...
Mihailovich and his hardy warriors have faced not only huge odds, but also staggering tool and supply problems. Most of their arms were Yugoslav army equipment hauled hastily into the mountains before the Germans advanced beyond Belgrade. Since then a little matériel has been dropped by parachute to Mihailovich, and some smuggled into Serbia from dissident elements in the Hungarian army...