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While units of the British armor hacked and widened the breach, advance units roared on, swung north to cut off the columns of the Afrika Korps retreating pell mell along the coast. Abandoned by their allies, left stranded in the south, Italian divisions fought hopelessly, finally quit (see p. 31). The British did not even bother to round them up. Their main objective was the Afrika Korps...
...wake of the far-ranging planes, British armor attacking the German column on its flanks cracked off segments of it and pinned them against the sea. Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
...come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
...planned with exquisite care. Montgomery gave his orders, the day the battle began, that the enemy must be destroyed. This was to be no mere chase across the desert, as in the past, when the British had dissipated their tank strength. This time they kept their armor intact and used it for annihilation...
Steelman Enos and Standard's chairman, Willard F. Rockwell, suggested an unlikely field-armor plate, long considered the restricted province of Bethlehem, Midvale and U.S. Steel. Laborman Golden, who holds no brief for the way most big-time steel companies handle their labor relations, jumped at the idea, explained it to the men. Against the bets of the whole steel industry, Standard began fabricating plate for tanks...