SMASHING OF ROMMEL
BIG ARTILLERY STUNTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. The soldiers who returned recently by hospital ship stated that the big artillery stunts when they were getting really ready to • push Rommel back were really terrific. Although the weight of guns was not as great as these that used to line up behind the set lines in 1914-18, they were mostly 25-pounders and were'up forward. with the heavier long-range guns further back. The concentration and speed of fire sent across were as much as, or more than, was ever fired on a similar length of front in Europe. At night when it was heaviest the whole line blazed.
A Wellington lieutenant said: "The barrage shook Alexandria, 64 miles away, from where we were. It shook us, and it shook Rommel right off his feet. New Zealand had a very fair share in that really smashing defeat of the crack Afrika Korps."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 8, 11 January 1943, Page 4
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