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...Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, key man of Mediterranean defense, supposedly has 13 divisions in northern Italy busy digging defenses across the top of the boot. Another seven in the south, under Rommel-hating Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, soon may be joining Rommel. An indication that Nazi strength in upper Italy may have been exaggerated came from a London Daily Express correspondent. He slipped into Italy from Switzerland, found "a trifling German army" in the region of Milan. One possibility: Rommel has his troops well dug into the border mountains, is policing the cities with a skeleton force...
...over their stronghold. Few Japs were taken prisoners. Some fled into the jungle with hard-bitten Diggers on their heels. The Japs fought fiercely but, according to the men of the 9th, not as formidably as the Germans. The 9th ("Morshead's Marines") should know. They helped crack Rommel's line at El Alamein...
...have looked like wishful thinking. About a year ago every Allied line of attack seemed to be a line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
...fleet of 19 cruisers and six battleships, numerous destroyers and submarines. Two of the cruisers, the Aurora and Penelope, with the destroyers Lance and Lively, intercepted one Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts to go to her succor, punched through four battered convoys. The aircraft carrier Eagle was lost with some destroyers, thousands...
...highest estimates, the Germans had consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...