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...Tobruk? In his humble vein, Winston Churchill confirmed the general diagnosis that Tobruk had fallen because the German High Command outsmarted the British, and because German equipment was better (TIME, July 6)-partly excusing it on the ground that quick manufacturing for British Isles defenses had put the premium in British material on quantity rather than quality. Many were his revelations, intentional or otherwise, of British military naivete...
...Tobruk's collapse he said: "It was utterly unexpected, not only by the public, but by the War Cabinet and even by the general staffs. It was also unexpected by General Auchinleck and the High Command of the Middle East. On the night before its capture we received a telegram from General Auchinleck that the garrison was adequate and the defenses in good order, and that 90 days' supplies were available for the troops...
What Leicester Hemingway, adventurous younger brother of Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases...
Bruce and the TDs. Man in charge of the U.S. rehearsal theater, which he chose for its limestone cliffs, mud and general orneriness, is quiet, resourceful, 47-year-old Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce, chief of the Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked...
...fallen, over the bastion, city and harbor German and Rumanian war flags are flying." It was almost true. For two more days the killing went on. Under the wings of the Luftwaffe, from the city's bombed and blazing docks, the Russian Black Sea Fleet still rescued troops, commanders, wounded. In the streets, rear guards fought until the last ship had gone and Moscow announced: "On the order of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, Soviet troops on July 3 evacuated Sevastopol." Then the rear guards and the surviving civilians retired to Khersones Peninsula, where they could kill...