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...growth of his forces caused him to make the real mistake of his career. In planning his counter-attacks last June, to throw the Germans back beyond Tobruk after they had retaken Libya, he planned a rapid attack, quick withdrawal, reattack. In operation he found that he could not move his big forces as quickly as he had moved his small forces. Supply complications and intertwining of forces tangled up the plan. It failed, and after a few days' fruitless fighting the attempt was abandoned...
...impulsive and generous nature, heard of their plight and got into a bombing plane, took an escort of two fighters and personally flew to the rescue of these British soldiers. Having picked them up, he flew the troops to an Italian hospital, then started back to Tobruk; his head quarters...
...moment when he came back over Tobruk our forces opened a bombing attack on the town, a queer coincidence. Our men were bombing from 20,000 feet and Balbo flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...
...than half of them are properly equipped for offensive action. British matériel is being hurried straight through the Mediterranean. All the while U.S. stuff is trickling in - Tomahawks, Marylands, Chrysler tanks, ammunition, trucks, spare parts. The British will have to try, sooner or later, to open up Tobruk: two-thirds of all the motor transport they had in North Africa were trapped there in the retreat last April...
...Middle Eastern Front, where besieged Anzac troops in Tobruk continue to weather an average of ten air raids a day, Royal Australian Air Force pilots were credited with downing eleven enemy planes for every loss to themselves...