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Germany's Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was advancing in Libya. Fresh German troops were reported on the borders of Turkey and in southern Italy, across the narrowest expanse of Mediterranean from North Africa. On the diplomatic front Vichy moved closer to Germany. On the propaganda front Berlin proclaimed India independent. On the political front Egypt got a nationalistic Government. Despite these signs, strategists said that Germany had no time to launch an offensive against Suez before June brought the need for a fresh assault on Russia...
...second time in a year that Field Marshal Rommel had captured Bengasi, and there was nothing second class about his performance. The sweeping Axis counterattack, which ten days before the British had hopefully called an "armored force reconnaissance," had swept around the base of the Gulf of Sidra, gathering momentum as it went...
...Msus in the desert Rommel's armored columns had waited two days for supplies, then knifed northwest to Bengasi. As they came to the coastal plain the German advance forked into a trident. One prong struck the main road north and east of Bengasi. The other two speared in south of the city...
Though the capture of Bengasi was not a disaster, it was a serious defeat for the British. More serious still was the fact that within a fortnight Rommel had swept up many British supply dumps, was virtually munitioning his campaign at Britain's expense. Most serious of all, the Field Marshal was apparently able to strike hammerblow attacks on land in spite of heavy strafing by a superior British air force...
...Erwin Rommel, Axis commander, appeared to be pausing for reorganization and perhaps new supplies from rear bases before attempting to take Tobruk and drive the British back the remaining 100-odd miles to the Egyptian border...