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King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap...
...armor courageously tried to stop the German onrush along the road to Sbeïtla. Lieut. Colonel Louis V. Hightower put his General Sherman tank between the advancing Germans and a fleeing motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
King George VI announced that a sword of honor was being struck for presentation to the "warrior city" of Stalingrad as a "token of the admiration not only of the British people but of the whole civilized world...
...hardened, battlewise troops, including the remnants of Erwin Rommel's tough if battered army, and at least one crack Panzer division-the Tenth, which had fought in Poland, France, Russia. German equipment was excellent. On to the battlefields last week rumbled the new, mighty Mark VI tank, heavily armored and hard to stop. Hitler had poured an estimated one-third of his entire air force into the North African area. The Allies have been unable to stop the flow of Axis reinforcements...
Ephesians VI...