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After launching more counterattacks, the British announced capture of 600 Germans and 40 cannon-some of the guns 25-pounders which the Germans had captured from them. Between the lines of counterattack, Rommel's five divisions of armor and infantry contracted into a solid, sinister oval, pointed at the British center. If that oval should crunch through, the El Alamein defense line that Auchinleck hoped to organize would be lost...
...best tanks were the German Mark IVs. Short on speed, engine power and armor protection, these tanks confirmed a U.S. doctrine which the British accepted last year, but did not put into effect in time for Libya and Egypt: that, above all else, tanks must have superior fire power. The Mark IVs main guns were better than anything in most of the British tanks. The British had many U.S. medium tanks ("General Grants") which theoretically outgunned even the Mark IVs. But the Grants had a serious fault: their main guns' limited field of fire...
...Rommel did, apparently, was to let the British exhaust themselves winning their "victories," then throw in his reserves to take the real victory. Moreover, he changed the pattern of desert warfare by stepping up the role of artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel's line south of the port, the German surprised them with a massive assembly of 88-mm. anti-tank guns and the British tanks took a dismal mauling-suffering losses which were at least partially responsible for the British defeat...
...year "foreman" who raked in a $25,000 bonus was actually Lincoln's chief metallurgist. He developed a new welding electrode that cut production costs 20%, discovered a new way to weld light and heavy armor plate that saves 20% on nickel and chrome...
...Japanese? Naval Expert Kiral-fy's answer: In 1942, by invading Japan from the north. This is also the first book that insists (sometimes with irritating dogmatism) that the key to victory over Japan cannot be found in comparative naval tonnage, air strength, gun power, speed or armor. It lies, says Kiralfy, in a closer study of the Japanese mind, especially in its military workings. Americans have never been very curious about the Japanese mind, and the spate of books on Japan (with the notable exception of Hugh Byas' The Japanese En-emy} has not been very...