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Beyond it, the R. A. F. strafed retreating troops, bombed tents, trucks, hangars, grounded planes. One day they ranged all the way to Tripoli to hit at shipping and transport planes that might slip supplies across to Bengasi. At that port the British expected to catch Rodolfo Graziani's men in a final trap, and they did not want it strenghtened by last-minute reinforcement...
...which, massing their attack, tried to blast the tightening ring of British force. But the R. A. F. was present, too, with eight-gun fighters against two-gun crates. Mussolini, far away in Rome, decreed that his troops in Bardia must hold out to the end to permit Marshal Rodolfo Graziani to consolidate a stand at Tobruch, 70 miles westward along the coast of Libya. Holding on stubbornly they had by week's end already given Graziani 14 days to pull his shattered army together...
Rome and Naples bubbled joyously one day last week. Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's "Terribili" legions in Libya had turned terribly on their British attackers and terribly smashed them to bits. They had taken 50,000-100,000-150,000 prisoners. They were marching triumphantly eastward again along their Via Vittoria (Victory Road) to Sidi Barrani in Egypt. Roman history had been made...
...roads led to Rome last week, and the Romans used them, lickety-split. Along a rock-&-gravel supply highway which Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler...
...aide hurried to Herr Hitler's coach and returned with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Armed Forces of the Reich. This was a clear indication that a war council was in progress. Before leaving Rome, Mussolini had had a long talk with his military chieftain, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who had been summoned home from Egypt and another halted invasion...