Word: auchinleck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much they accomplished in nine months of labor is a military secret. But wrecked machine shops are in operation once more. Supplies to reinforce Auchinleck's army in Egypt are flowing through rebuilt quays and warehouses. Mechanized equipment, shot up and damaged in the desert war, are repaired there. The U.S. Army's Major General Russell Maxwell, closemouthed commander of the base which has become one of the most vital in a far-flung chain of United Nations supply depots, admits that the base at Massaua, little-publicized service entrance to Egypt and the Middle East...
...bringing up reinforcements and the forces accumulating were growing too big for any equilibrium in the narrow position they fought for. Something had to give. If Rommel gave, he might have to run all the way back to Libya to prepare another assault. But if Britain's General Auchinleck gave, it would be downhill for Rommel to Alexandria. The shadow still hung heavy over the Middle East...
...General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...permitted The Auk to rush up fresh reserves of men and matériel from Suez, Palestine, Syria and the rest of the Middle East. But the amount he could bring up was limited by what was available in those quarters. Any major reinforcements, ordered by General Auchinleck since the situation in Egypt became acute, will have to come from Britain or the U.S. and cannot be expected for two or three months...
Forward Pass. To balance these odds in Rommel's favor there appeared to be only one important factor working on General Auchinleck's side. The British were using their air force with new effectiveness, not merely to neutralize the Nazi air force but for direct attacks on Rommel's troops and supplies...