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...They used their artillery, turned strategically placed 25-pounders on Rommel, knocked out his tanks, even blew up some of his deadly 88-mm. cannon...
...They lay low. Alexander's own philosophy of attack also recognized the possibility of entrapment. They waited to see which way Rommel's Sturm swung...
...They used their air power in teamwork with ground forces. At Rommel's advancing columns they unleashed the fiercest air attack the desert has yet seen. Along with the British planes were U.S. bombers of Colonel C. G. Goodrich's command and U.S. fighters under the command of Brigadier General Auby Strickland. They routed the Luftwaffe by the very weight of numbers, until they were able to blast Rommel at will, morning, noon and night...
They pounded his supply lines, even sent planes over the Mediterranean toward Crete and Sicily to attack ships moving in slow convoys with new supplies for Rommel's reserves. Sunk within four days were three Axis tankers, two freighters laden with motor vehicles, one destroyer...
...bitterly long time the Army has lost skirmishes in the spare parts and maintenance war. In the same war Field Marshal Rommel has often won victories in the desert by patching up busted tanks and planes, while the British, brave fighters but indifferent to machinery, won defeats. Under the tents that serve as machine shops in the desert the U.S. means to win victories, but first...