By Denes Bernad
First seeing motion within the wake of the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the Royal Rumanian Air strength were allied to the Luftwaffe because the Romanian executive signed a Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in November 1940. This booklet finds how, regardless of affliction heavy losses to the numerically better Russian forces, the Rumanians inflicted even larger casualties at the communists. Locked in sour clash with the Soviets until eventually September 1944, whilst the pink military poured around the Rumanian frontier and compelled an armistice, the modest fighter strength claimed 1500+ kills utilizing essentially Bf 109's, E’s.
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Wavell left Cairo for the desert and, in order to stem Rommel’s advance, he ordered O’Connor to leave Cairo to join General Neame, the British commander in Cyrenaica, as an advisor. Rommel’s intent was to cut the Cyrenaica bulge, the reverse of what O’Connor had achieved only weeks 1. 5 March, at Wingate’s 3rd Indian Division (Special Force) HQ at Lalaghat in India, a hastily arranged photoreconnaissance reveals teak logs stretched across the proposed Chindit air-landing field, ‘Piccadilly’. After a meeting, Wingate and his 77th Brigade commander, Brigadier Calvert, agreed that the glider landings scheduled for later that night should be diverted to another landing field, ‘Broadway’.
Assessing the methods and effectiveness of these officers provides a unique glimpse into the inner mechanics of Wavell’s mind. From a different perspective, which officer within the inner circle of either Rommel or Montgomery acquired the necessary support and then the limelight to exhibit their military talent? Despite Wavell’s personal attributes and devotion to military duty, he stands behind such figures as Rommel or Montgomery as a ‘consummate professional soldier’. ’ Wavell was no dilettante, but he lacked the single-minded purpose that drove contemporaries such as Rommel or Montgomery.
With the Italian threat to Egypt and Cyrenaica eliminated, the Defence Council prioritized Greece over the Western Desert. The strategy that Wavell suggested was the withdrawal of the entire Greek battle-line to a more compact front, to create a counterattacking reserve force. However, the Greek commander, General Papagos, disagreed with Wavell’s approach. On 6 April the Germans launched a broad assault throughout the Balkans. Wavell had committed the New Zealand Division under Maj. Gen. Bernard Freyberg to the Aliakmon Line under the overall command of General Wilson (W Force).
