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...Afrika Korps recovered Italian Cyrenaica but lacked enough power to crush beseiged Tobruk; then lost Cyrenaica again to Auchinleck; finally, reinforced, overran the British army to push across Egypt to El Alamein. At that point only a decimated British army which had lost most of its equipment stood between Rommel and Cairo...
...Montgomery began the assault which broke Rommel's line at El Alamein. On Nov.8, Eisenhower landed in Morocco and Algeria. On Jan. 31 1943, the Sixth German Army surrendered at Stalingrad, Stage II had ended...
...Rommel and Himmler were in on the plot to kill Hitler last July 20, but Rommel got killed before he was found out, and Himmler "reneged...
Leading the armored pack when Montgomery chased Rommel, the Desert Fox, out of Africa was hard-riding Herbert Lumsden, commander of the X Corps. A lieutenant general at the age of 45, he was accounted one of Britain's most brilliant young commanders...
...offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles of Strasbourg. Considering the relatively small...