TheCodeBreakers
detailed mosaic which Rommel had available and which helped him win
his epithet, "the Desert Fox." And when in May of 1942 his Panzer
divisions rolled forward in his supreme effort to conquer Egypt and
punch through Palestine to join the Wehrmacht forces from Russia, the
intercepted American messages again brought him information of the
highest importance. They first told him that the British were planning to
anchor their defense line on Mersa Matruh, a town on the Mediterranean
coast about 200 miles west of Alexandria; then, when Auchinleck decided
that this position was untenable, the intercepts kept Rommel up to date
with the British changes of mind.
But even Rommel could not do much without gasoline for his tanks
and troop-carriers, and of this he never had enough. The thorn in his
side was Malta. This tough little island, a British bastion lying in the
Mediterranean between Sicily and the Axis bases in North Africa, served
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