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...been sunk. Royal Navy submarines sank the majority of them. Allied fighters have harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither closed the ports nor cut the coastal railways and air and sea lanes; it has only made Axis supply expensive...
...central sector Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's suddenly withered forces offered no resistance. Their plentiful sowing of land mines and booby traps delayed but did not halt the advance of U.S. troops, who overran Feriana and the Roman ruins of Sbeitla, jogged on past Sidibou Zid and regained virtually all the ground which they had lost during Rommel's savage attempt to crack the middle of the Allied ring three weeks ago. Rommel clung to Gafsa, which gave him a springboard for another attempt. But his hold was precarious. He was in danger of being outflanked by French...
...Bottleneck. Rommel had met more resistance than he had apparently bargained for. His troops had become exhausted, overextended and overtaxed. The Eighth Army in the south was showing signs of opening its assault. And perhaps there was another explanation for the turnabout: Fredendall's young men had learned their lessons fast. Said Eisenhower of the U.S. troops: "All complacency has now been dropped...
...military idiots." said the Sweep. ". . . Cor sufferin' wars. Cor chase old auntie Rommel round the sand 'eaps...
Conversations. When the British obviously had Rommel on the run in Egypt last November, "Sitting On The Fence" voiced the national sentiments in a dialogue between Gubbins and The Chimney Sweep...