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On this day in 1942, the Desert Fox almost lost the war in Africa.
Three days into the Battle of Gazala, Erwin Rommel had driven his entire Afrika Korps around the southern edge of the British minefields in a brilliant night march, then turned north and stabbed deep into the British rear.
It was textbook Rommel. Audacious, fast, and on May 28, very nearly suicidal.
By sunset his panzers were stranded behind British lines.
No fuel. Almost no water. British armor on three sides. His supply convoys somewhere out in 200 miles of open desert, hunted by raiders from the Free French garrison at Bir Hacheim.
The British commander Neil Ritchie had him cornered. All he had to do was attack.
He waited.
That night, Rommel did something that almost no army commander in modern history would do.
He climbed into a truck. Took a handful of staff officers. And drove out into the dark desert himself to find his missing supply column.
He found it by moonlight.
Then he led the trucks back through enemy territory in person, navigating by the stars, threading between British patrols in the dark, all the way back to his stranded tanks.
He arrived at dawn with fuel.
The next morning his men dug into a shallow depression in the desert floor that history would name "The Cauldron." Two weeks later, Tobruk fell. 33,000 British soldiers walked into captivity.
Churchill nearly lost a vote of no confidence in Parliament.
The British learned a lesson that summer that the Germans had known for years.
Sometimes wars are won by generals who do their own driving.
@quinn_morgue They’re beautiful!!
Would you mind if I saved these? I want to eventually get back into making edits & White pill memes again.
I always give credit even if I’m just sharing a picture not in an edit.
Would you be ok if I grabbed these please? They’re really great photos!🙋🏼♀️🤍