TheCodeBreakers
February 1: Forthcoming commando operations; efficiency
ratings of various British units; report that American M-3 tanks
could not be used before mid-February.
February 6: Location and efficiency of the 4th Indian Division
and the 1st Armored Division; iteration of British plans to dig in
along the Acroma-Bir Hacheim line; recognition of the possibility
that Axis forces might reach the Egyptian frontier once the
armored divisions had been regrouped.
February 7: British units stabilized along the Ain el Gazala-Bir
Hacheim line.
These only highlight the outstanding tesserae of the abundantly
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