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  2. Panzer Greift An - Wikipedia

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    Panzer greift an (known as Tank Attacks in English) is an unfinished book on armoured tactics and warfare by Erwin Rommel. It was to be the follow-up and companion work to his earlier and highly successful Infanterie greift an, which was published in 1937.

  3. Infantry Attacks - Wikipedia

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    Rommel's book Infanterie greift an. Infantry Attacks (German: Infanterie greift an) is a classic book on military tactics written by Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. At the time of the book's writing in the mid-1930s, Rommel's rank was lieutenant colonel.

  4. Timeline of the North African campaign - Wikipedia

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    16 December: Rommel facing reduced Panzer numbers orders withdrawal from the Gazala line; 24 December: British forces capture Benghazi; 25 December: Agedabia reached by the Allies; 27 December: Rommel inflicts many losses on British tanks who have to withdraw allowing Rommel to fall back to El Agheila; 31 December: Front lines return to El Agheila

  5. Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia

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    According to author Ward Rutherford, Rommel also held racist views towards British colonial troops from India; Rutherford in his The biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel writes: "Not even his most sycophantic apologists have been able to evade the conclusion, fully demonstrated by his later behaviour, that Rommel was a racist who, for ...

  6. Armoured warfare - Wikipedia

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    When IJA and SNLF (Imperial marines) tanks did clash with the enemy they were quickly destroyed by concealed anti-tank guns or overwhelming numbers of hostile tanks. Japan was a naval power, and concentrated its production on warships, thus placing a low priority on armoured vehicle development, [ 35 ] its tanks becoming quickly obsolete during ...

  7. The Rommel Papers - Wikipedia

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    The book included Rommel's writings of the war, edited by the British journalist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart, the former Wehrmacht officer Fritz Bayerlein, who served on Rommel's staff in North Africa, and Rommel's widow and son. The volume contained an introduction and commentary by Liddell Hart.

  8. Battle of Gazala - Wikipedia

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    The Eighth Army received new equipment, including 167 American Lend-Lease M3 Grant tanks equipped with 75 mm guns, and large numbers of 6-pounder anti-tank guns. Rommel thought that Allied minefields ended well north of Bir Hakeim and did not know of the "mine marsh" surrounding the box. [11]

  9. 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    General Erwin Rommel and staff observe 7th Panzer Division practicing a river crossing at the Mosel, 1940. Following the completion of the invasion of Poland, the limited effectiveness of the light divisions caused the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH; German High Command) to order the reorganization of the four light divisions into full panzer divisions.