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...dawn of 1944, the Invasion Year, fingering through the Channel mists, lights a new Britain. This is not the Britain of Stratford, of grazing sheep, of humdrum shopkeepers running an empire; not a Britain sorely wounded but unconquered by the Luftwaffe; not a Britain brooding over Tobruk, sighing with relief after El Alamein. This is a Britain in the full tide of action, of imminent victory...
Montgomery had learned the lesson, too. His example was Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...
...Parrott, now an officer in the Royal Signals, has celebrated the birth of his son by composing under the walls of Tobruk a Berceuse string quartet...
...their ground crew with them, never got any more. They bombed Bengasi, Crete, Tripoli, the Dodecanese Islands and Axis convoys in the Mediterranean. In November they moved to Egypt, helped the Eighth Army's offensive by blowing up Rommel's oil dumps and two tankers at Tobruk. Thereafter Rommel's supply of oil came only by air transport. The 513th hit Tobruk ("the milk run") nearly every morning. Their biggest flop: once they set out for Tripoli, got lost looking for Sousse, finally reached Gabes, where they dropped their bombs and killed only a mess of fish...
...work has taken its toll of astronomors. Shapley stated that four members of his staff, assigned to observing work at Bloemfontein, are in the South African Army. One was in Tobruk when the Axis captured the town and is believed to be a prisoner...