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...long-besieged Tobruk (TIME, Dec. 8), was last week negated by the Germans, who cut the relieving corridor. The two hoped-for successes, bottling the German tank forces and then destroying them, were at least postponed by the same act of cutting. It was accomplished by a convergence on Sidi Rézegh, southeast of Tobruk, of the three main Axis tank forces-Germany's 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions, Italy's Battering Ram Division...
...they did not want to. They chose to stand and fight. For a few days they seemed to be doing a little better than holding their own. But after pausing for repairs and reinforcements, the British resumed the attack, claimed they were forcing the Germans out of the Sidi Rézegh area deeper into the desert...
...first phase of battle the British sent columns shoot ing into the desert to isolate the various Axis cantonments and fortresses. Each column had as its objective certain vital highways and desert tracks. Three of them had as their eventual rendezvous a key point on the biggest Axis highway, Sidi Rezegh. The fourth (mechanized New Zealanders) cut north behind Axis forts on the Egyptian border, isolating them from the rear; then split and hurried along the coast, isolating coastal strongholds like Bardia and Gambut. In that operation the Fleet assisted. With control of land highways, with control...
Containing Moves. When they had recovered from the first shock, the German armored forces took the initiative. They had three aims: 1) to engage and destroy as many British tanks as possible south of Sidi Rezegh; 2) to maintain a channel to the west below Tobruk, through which infantry and some mechanized forces could escape; 3) to create a diversion behind the British lines. This last move gave the British a short, sharp scare. Tank patrols actually penetrated several miles into Egypt before the British threw them back...
...mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters in Palestine; spend a day at his desk in Cairo. Now he was not as sharp as he had been: his Syrian effort was going lazily, his action at Hellfire Pass last month...