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...Between 40,000 and 50,000 men were moved into Egypt. They were on hand when Rommel struck...
...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...
Wendell Willkie, who got to Egypt just after the battle ended, counted 100 out of 290 of Rommel's first-line tanks knocked out. "I saw the ruins of these tanks myself," said he. "Rommel has lost 40% of his punch...
Before the battle of El Hemeimat, Britain's chances of holding Rommel in the desert had seemed desperately scant. In Rommel's last attack the Eighth Army had lost more than 80,000 men, to say nothing of huge amounts of munitions and supplies which Rommel had confiscated and put to his own use. The army had been driven 400 miles back, was disorganized and discouraged. Then...
Last week the British harried the Axis flanks, gave Rommel's supply lines no surcease from bombing. Allied bombers raided Mediterranean shipping. Tobruk became known as the "milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...