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Java was already in the vise and the time and chance for an all-out test of Conrad Helfrich's long-planned offensive defense had gone, when he succeeded Admiral Hart in the supreme Indies naval command. His main base at Surabaya was under continuous bomber attack, first from carriers, then from captured land bases. Very soon, Vice Admiral Helfrich had on his hands a desperate job of defense, very close to home...
There had been friction between General Gordon Bennett and the British High Command. The Australian's dislike for Air Chief Marshal Sir General Robert Brooke-Popham was embarrassingly obvious. But Henry Gordon Bennett was a valuable soldier, and his supposed capture, obligingly confirmed by the Japanese, was a blow to the Allies...
...result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far failed to close on another Nazi Army. In "a southern sector" Russia conceded a German wedge of 24 square miles into the Russian line...
While the khamsin was blowing itself out, the British discussed rumors that Marshal Rommel had been recalled, possibly to command an army on the Eastern Front. It was said that his Libyan staff was now sufficiently trained to carry on without him. Rommel's smart tactics had been as maddening as the khamsin, but neither Rommel nor the khamsin made restless British troops as furious as a letter seized from a German officer of the 104th Infantry Regiment. The letter gave credit to the English as "coldblooded infighters, arrogant and proud" prisoners, but concluded: "So far his tank tactics...
...years, Daladier said, the French High Command had distrusted tank warfare, had scorned the theory of General Charles de Gaulle that tanks should be used as the spearhead of attack, rather than as isolated units accompanying infantry advances. "But our leaders did not believe in them," Daladier told the court. "They were placed behind our troops...