Word: wilhelm
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...with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...
...eastern Mediterranean, the German eyed Cyprus, hoped to make it another Crete, a steppingstone down the Levant to Suez. To the north in Bulgaria, General Wilhelm Student, No. 1 Nazi parachutist, whipped new men into shape, ran a vast training program for glider pilots, reconditioned ground officers to lead air infantry. Perhaps they were being trained for an invasion of Britain, but a better bet was that they were headed for the Mediterranean...
...Crimea, then. Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein, Junker-born apostle of the swift and crushing thrust, slogged east toward Kerch. Before his power drive the Russians fell back toward the end of the Crimea, and at week's end were fighting in Kerch. With water at their backs they were in a tough spot, but so since last October had been the great naval base at Sevastopol. And Sevastopol was still in Russian hands...
Prince Louis Ferdinand, 33-year-old grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and onetime mechanic in the Ford plant at Detroit, now an officer in the German air corps, was reported a prisoner of war in Canada...
Prussian of the East. Tomoyuki Yamashita's exposure to Germanics came early. His course of studies at the Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics...