Бронетехника / Бронетехника WW2 / Бронетехника WW2: Германия и союзники / Panzer Armee Afrika: Tripoli to Tunis

Издательство: Arms & Armour Press
Серия: Tanks Illustrated 28
Автор: Peter Gudgin
Название: Panzer Armee Afrika: Tripoli to Tunis
Язык: английский
Год издания: 1988
Количество страниц: 64
ISBN: 0-85368-953-2
Формат: pdf
Размер: 27 мб

With the Allied 'Torch' landings in November 1942 and the fall of Tripoli in January 1943, the position of the Axis forces in North Africa had become perilous. Rommel, commanding Panzer Armec Afrika, had been pressing with increasing urgency for the promised reinforcements of six or seven divisions and two heavy tank battalions with their 40 Tiger tanks and 40 Pz Kpfw IIIs.
After his recall to Berlin in March 1943, during which he requested the evaluation of his remaining forces in Tunisia, Rommel was replaced in command on the 9th of the month by Von Arnim, who had formed the 5th Panzer Armee in December 1942 and who retained overall command of Armee Gruppe Afrika until the surrender of all Axis forces in Tunisia in May 1943.