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...When a Biblical plague of locusts swept the food lands of the Middle East in 1942, threatening disaster to General Montgomery's drive against Rommel, Lend-Lease rushed planes, technicians and insecticides to the scene. They gave the area its first lesson in scientific insect control, and saved the larder of the Eighth Army. >When Axis propaganda implied that Polish and Yugoslav prisoners of the Axis had been forgotten by the United Nations while British and American prisoners received food packets monthly, Lend-Lease acted. It now supplies 56,000 Polish and 140,000 Yugoslav prisoners with an eleven...
Peril in August. "I remember well in August of last year when I came to join the Eighth Army. ... I was told the Eighth was in imminent danger of being attacked by Rommel and that at all costs it was to be preserved and withdrawn down the Alexandria-Cairo road. Plans were actually being worked out to move Army Headquarters back to Cairo. . . The Eighth required somebody to say to it : 'If we are attacked we will fight where we stand - we will fight hard!' And once that had been said there was no further trouble...
...knew that if the Germans could hold us we might have to go back a long way. . . . For about one day in that battle, I was slightly anxious. But we got to Tripoli in eight days. The second occasion was when we left Tripoli. . . . About the same time Rommel was attacking the Americans at Gafsa, and we had to do something about it. ... We were very weak and very stretched and it was clear that Rommel was pulling out from in front of the Americans to attack us. ... I think the only thing that saved us was our great...
...Monty may resume the chase of an old fox. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, according to reports from the Continent, is organizing a mobile army, intends to switch it, in the manner of Frederick the Great, against the various invasion threats as they arise...
According to Plan. But there was another reason. The General's men in the line were sure of one thing: Germany's soldiers and Germany's commanders, including Marshals Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring, had a great deal to do with the Allies' troubles. The Germans in Italy did not know that Germany had lost the war; they were fighting as shrewdly and fiercely as the British fought after Dunkirk...