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TIME'S primary reason given for such action was that U.S. combat forces together with Allied troops, navy and air force would be used simultaneously against Vichy and North Africa and coordinated with an attempt to turn back Rommel in Egypt and Libya...
...lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...
...Germans fled on towards the Libyan border. Early this week there was a chance that Rommel might try to make a stand at Hellfire Pass. But with U.S. forces now in the west and Montgomery in full cry on his heels, his position looked hopeless. Six divisions of his Italians had surrendered: between 72,000 and 80,000 men, with their equipment. Uncounted were the dead and the wounded. British estimates were that Rommel had only some 20,000 troops left to him. Knocked out were his air forces, so that he could no longer even weakly parry the ferocious...
...Italy since Oct. 22 (TIME, Nov. 2). The British lost 18 planes in all six raids. These were the price of heavily damaging 1,000 acres of harbor area, with two drydocks and facilities for handling 8,000,000 tons of shipping annually-shipping which in war has supplied Rommel's Panzers in Africa and Germany's air bases on Sicily. The British airmen, returning through the rain, snow and ice of the Alps after their hazardous flight, had reason to be satisfied...
...their German allies. They had fought a good fight. In the south, the famed Folgore parachute division fought to the last round of ammunition. Two armored divisions and a motorized division, which had been interspersed among the German Panzer army, thought they would be allowed to retire gracefully with Rommel's 21st, 15th and 19th light. But even that was denied them. When it became obvious to Rommel that there would be little chance to hold anything between Daba and the frontier, his Panzers dissolved, disintegrated and turned tail, leaving the Italians to fight a rear-guard action...