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...York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy wrote from Cairo last week: "The British armored forces and infantry units have broken the Axis line west of el-Gazála and have sent the Germans reeling backward in headlong retreat." Other reports also had General Erwin Rommel's Army "reeling backward." BBC claimed this week that Rommel was abandoning Bengasi and retreating towards Tripoli...
...German Army's retreat as far as el-Gazála was orderly enough. Beaten back rather than completely outmaneuvered, Rommel had left el-Gazála to hold el-Mechili-el-Tmimi road in defense of Dérna. In one of the biggest battles of the Desert campaign, the British cut this road and started their advance. This was apparently the beginning...
...Units of Rommel's forces that had not retreated beyond Bengasi were caught on the Barca Plateau. This was the area the Axis had hoped to defend to block the advancing British. They apparently stumbled over it in retreat, for this week Rommel's armored units and the Italian infantry appeared to be sprawled from Cyrene toward Tripoli...
...second lesson concerned recovery. The decisive factor in last week's fighting was the rapidity and efficiency of German field supply, and particularly repair. It was this which had made it possible for General Erwin Rommel to recover so quickly from the first pounding his forces took, then to seize the initiative before the British had caught their second wind...
...General Rommel met the main British force with one of his ambiguities- he sent the full steel strength of his primary defensive tank park onto the offense. They counterattacked. On that first day a violent tank battle swirled on the desert. Besides his tanks General Rommel turned his anti-aircraft batteries against the advancing British tanks. The battle seemed to go geographically in favor of the British, who nevertheless suffered terrible metal losses...