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...Field Marshal Rommel's rested, reinforced Afrika Korps seemed about to launch the drive for Egypt, Suez and mastery of the Mediterranean...
...Long Wait. For more than two months General Sir Harold Alexander's British had crouched along the 35-mile front stretching from the Qattara Depression to the sea. Daily they had made sorties and feints, lashing at Rommel's advance posts, scuttling back to their own lines to bind their wounds and bat the flies. The flies were the worst. They swarmed over the unburied dead. They swarmed over the living, drove soldiers close to madness, until morale ran out and men prayed only for some kind of action. Now they...
...light of the waning moon Rommel made his last-minute preparations. As dawn cracked over the desert, he attacked. It looked at last like the offensive for which the British had waited...
...scarcely possible that the Eighth Army had received anything like the reinforcement that Rommel had got over shorter supply lines which the British had been unable to sever. To Rommel from Crete had flown a complete German infantry division - the 146th. From Italy, a full infantry division. Also reported in the desert were German and Italian parachute troops, and on hand were two veteran Panzer divisions and Rommel's tough, veteran 19th light motorized infantry division. One estimate of his strength: 125,000 to 140,000 men, rested and equipped...
CAIRO--Marshal Erwin Rommel has pulled back his crack German tank forces from exposed points in a 20-mile salient on the Egyptian front, where a withering bombardment from Allied planes and artillery was running their losses up to three times those of the Allies, front report said tonight...