What Rommel Said When American Planes Destroyed His Panzers In Africa

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  @WW2Tales · 5 months ago · pinned

  Sources and further reading:<br>The Rommel Papers, edited by B.H. Liddell Hart (1953)<br>Krieg ohne Hass, edited by Lucie-Maria Rommel and Fritz Bayerlein (1950)<br>The National WWII Museum — Operation FLAX, April 1943: <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-flax-april-1943-severing-german-afrika-korps-lifeline">https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-flax-april-1943-severing-german-afrika-korps-lifeline</a><br>The National WWII Museum — Kasserine Pass: German Offensive, American Victory: <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/kasserine-pass-german-offensive-american-victory">https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/kasserine-pass-german-offensive-american-victory</a><br>American Battle Monuments Commission — The North Africa Campaign, Remembering the Fight for El Guettar: <a href="https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/north-africa-campaign-remembering-fight-el-guettar/">https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/north-africa-campaign-remembering-fight-el-guettar/</a><br>US Army Center of Military History — Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, by George F. Howe: <a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-NWA/">https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-NWA/</a><br>HyperWar — The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume II (Craven and Cate): <a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/II/">https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/II/</a><br>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — Tunisia Campaign: <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/tunisia-campaign">https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/tunisia-campaign</a><br>Air and Space Forces Magazine — Airpower From the Ground Up: <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1100airpower/">https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1100airpower/</a><br>57th Fighter Group Association — The Palm Sunday Massacre: <a href="http://www.57thfightergroup.org/history/goose_shoot/">http://www.57thfightergroup.org/history/goose_shoot/</a><br>Air University Press — Airpower and Ground Armies, edited by Daniel Mortensen: <a href="https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/">https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/</a><br>International Churchill Society — Erwin Rommel: <a href="https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-128/erwin-rommel-qmay-i-say-across-the-havoc-of-war-a-great-generalq/">https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-128/erwin-rommel-qmay-i-say-across-the-havoc-of-war-a-great-generalq/</a><br>Nellis Air Force Base — 57th Fighter Group&apos;s Palm Sunday Goose Shoot: <a href="https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Article/2996899/">https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Article/2996899/</a><br>Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa, by Saul David (2024)<br>An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943, by Rick Atkinson<br>Coningham: A Biography, by Vincent Orange

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  @JenniCole-r4w · 3 months ago

  My old Dad, Harold Warner, was a corporal and a medical technologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa and later in Italy. Most of what he said about the war to his mates was over my head. The one story which has stuck was him doing guard duty in a foxhole one night ( everybody had to do it) when a pair of hands came around his neck from behind. One hand held a Sykes Fairbairn commando knife to his throat while the other felt for his dogtags. Fortunately, he had them. The Gurkha said &quot;Goodnight sahib&quot; softly and disappeared into the night to terrify somebody else.

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  @MikeLockhart-n9u · 5 months ago

  Thank you for keeping this important history alive! &nbsp;Wonderful account!<br><br>My father flew a B-25 in N Africa under the 12 th Air Force, 82 nd Bomb Squadron between 1942 and 1943. &nbsp;He kept a diary which was chronicled by J. Chamberlain in the Jour of Air Force Hist Foun, Spring 2023 volume. <br><br>He went on to maintain a career in the Air Force and commanded KC-97 and B-52 squadrons.

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  @dominicdicecco6569 · 1 month ago

  My father, SSgt Carmine Tomacelli, was a battalion level radio operator attached to the 91st Infantry Division. He served in N. Africa, Sicily, then landed on the mainland just south of Anzio. The irony was he had been born and lived his childhood a little south of his landing point in a town called Gaeta.

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  @3lullabies · 5 months ago (edited)

  The doctrine is sound, air has a theatre wide view, clean up the air resistance, cut logostics, and button up the edges. <br>Having them only escort and cover would have been such a waste.<br>All respect to the mighty RAF! 🇬🇧

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  @billyskoda6839 · 5 months ago

  What Rommel Said.. &apos; Better late than never&apos;...

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  @LloydMcElheny-d2w · 1 month ago

  If I may point out, much of the air power in North Africa was American P40s, which the Brits called Kitty Hawks and later affectionately dubbed &quot;Kitty bombers&quot;, for their effectiveness as attack planes.

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  @TigerTom-u9e · 5 months ago

  Very good, comprehensive, and integral breakdown of the process by which the war in North Africa was won. Including the key military figures whom administrated the victory and also those who suffered the loss, provides a more thorough understanding of the war in North Africa.

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  @WW2ForgottenMissions · 1 month ago

  good video

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  @rickholland4578 · 1 month ago

  Sir Arthur was made famous in the movie Patlton

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  @GamingWithJollyRoger · 4 weeks ago

  Good stuff, would like to make a Mission in DCS World about El Alamein Battle Close Air Support. Thanks for the info.

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  @thomasmurray3920 · 1 month ago

  Shown is Carl Spaatz, which due in part to the British accent was rendered as “Spartz” which made me laugh.

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