Word: tobruk
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Like a wave running up a beach, the sweeping force of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thrust toward Tobruk had by last week slowed, thinned, sunk into the sand. What worried the British was how far the next wave might...
...Cyrenaica sunburned, sand-scoured soldiers of the Afrika Korps and the British Imperial forces did no more than skirmish on a line some 60 miles southwest of Tobruk. Both sides were busy getting a toe hold, bringing up supplies and reinforcements. Both air forces pounded away at each other's supply lines...
...Libya there appeared to be a lull, as the British communique said that patrols fanning out from their positions west and south of Tobruk had failed to make contact with any "important bodies" of the Axis troops...
...Erwin Rommel, Axis commander, appeared to be pausing for reorganization and perhaps new supplies from rear bases before attempting to take Tobruk and drive the British back the remaining 100-odd miles to the Egyptian border...
...sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...