Word: auchinleck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had they had adequate equipment. They had retreated before Graziani singing: "Oh, Sidi Barrani-Oh, Mersa Matrûh-The Eyties will get there, then what will we do?" Then under Wavell they had driven Graziani westward to El Aghéila. Rommel had punched them back. Under Auchinleck, Cunningham and Ritchie had recovered that ground. Again Rommel had punched them back, this time destroying most of their armored force and driving them eastward to within 70 miles of Alexandria. There was doubt that they could hold the line much longer against Rommel's increasing weight. They were...
...record as the leader of two "brilliant retreats," from Dunkirk and Burma. Now in Egypt, he commands forces which cannot retreat again without losing all that they defend. At El Alamein his back is to the wall in a theater where three soldiers with greater reputations- Wavell, Cunningham, Auchinleck-failed to beat Rommel...
Alexander succeeds Auchinleck in the over-all command of the Middle East. Under him, in direct command of the Eighth Army in Egypt, he has Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, a 54-year-old Ulsterman who is also a veteran of the retreat from France. But, like Wavell and Auchinleck (who at the last held both the area and army commands), Alexander is responsible for victory or defeat...
With General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lieut. General Sir Allan Moreshead, Australian Commander, Churchill saw the white of El Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...
Strafer understood desert warfare. He was one of Auchinleck's pillars. Strafer almost understood the desert. Once he observed in his deceptively soft voice: "To him who knows it, the desert can be a fortress; to him who does not, it can be a deathtrap." From London last week came a report that enemy planes had attacked his plane, shot him down. In the skies over the desert the trap had closed on Strafer Gott...