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...coastal end, but farther south, near the Hill of Evil Men, Montgomery's 51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...
...Rommel was trying to keep the nucleus of an army intact, trying to hold together what was left of his once superb 15th and 21st Armored and 90th Light Motorized Divisions. Somewhere, perhaps at Matrûh, perhaps at Hellfire Pass, he might be able to make a stand. But faster than Rommel's flight was the R.A.F...
...Coast Road. The world read with horror, two years ago, of Nazi planes strafing helpless civilians as they fled in panic along the roads of France. Along those French roads, the same 51st Highlanders who last week broke Rommel's line had fought a rear-guard action, cut to ribbons by the Stukas. Now the Scots and the dead of France were avenged. Over a wildly retreating Nazi army swooped Allied planes...
...wake of the far-ranging planes, British armor attacking the German column on its flanks cracked off segments of it and pinned them against the sea. Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
...Battle Lost. What had caused the debacle of Rommel? He had probably lost the battle weeks before it was joined. He had lost it at sea as Allied planes and British subs choked off his supplies. Reuters reported that in the past six weeks not a single Axis tanker had been able to cross the Mediterranean Sea. During the battle itself the Allies had sunk more than 50,000 tons of Axis ships that were trying to carry to Rommel oil and materiel. Rommel may have known that the battle was lost when he went to Berlin a month...