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...Tasker Keyes, son of the Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
Young Keyes, working with a captain and a sergeant, was foraging for Rommel. He opened the door of a second room. It was dark, but the three Britons could hear suppressed breathing inside. Keyes ran in, firing his pistol. He was met with a volley and fell in the doorway. The sergeant climbed over his body and sprayed the room with gunfire. The Germans fired back. The British captain dashed into the room and yelled "duck." The captain then blew the room apart with two hand grenades. He and the sergeant carried Colonel Keyes's body outside...
Though the raiders did inestimable damage in killing staff officers and destroying the building, they failed to get General Rommel. He had gone to a birthday party...
...desert rains came last week Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's tactical units were still waiting to do final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted...
...with the bayonet against Axis units after a preliminary air and tank blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned in Bardia...