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Early last week correspondents motored at their peril on a road near Beurát-el-Hsun, between the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps' line east of Tripoli. Late in the week the same correspondents, venturing out again, saw signs left by British sappers: "Road free of mines as far as three miles east of Beaur...
While U. S. Flying Fortresses alone smashed 44 enemy aircraft on the Axis airdrome at Castel Benito near Tripoli, planes of the Middle East Command hammered Tripoli itself, the nearby port of Homs, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa island in the Sicilian straits...
Wadi to Wadi. As for Rommel, he continued west, hopping from wadi to wadi along the serrated Mediterranean coast. At week's end he was less than 200 miles east of Tripoli, at Wadi Zemzem. The main British forces were 50 miles east, moving with care and caution...
Westward Rommel continued to flee until, at week's end, he was 225 miles from El Aghéila and still pelting on toward Tripoli. He might stop short of that port. He might make a stand there just to keep such a handy harbor and supply base out of General Montgomery's hands. But there were increasing signs that he might retreat all the way to Tunisia...
...secondary concern of the German High Command, whose primary objective was to hang on to Tunis and Bizerte and strike back in northwestern Africa. The fox had been left to find another temporary refuge, possibly at Misurata, 300 miles farther along the North African coast. After Misurata was Tripoli, itself a dubious refuge, target of methodical Allied bombing...