ROUT OF ROMMEL
U.S. TANKS RESPONSIBLE DEVASTATING EFFECT (11.3 d a.m.) NEW YORK. Dec. :s Major General Levin Campbell chief of Army Ordnance, declared that General Grant tanks were the deciding factor in routing General Rommel in Egypt. A British genera) who used them said that the Gra'nts were the answer to the tankman’s prayer. General Campbell said that General Rommel’s rout was so complete and precipitous that he left behind a sample of everything he had, including his shoes. , He added that the General Grant’s fire-power exceeds anything the Germans had yet placed in the field. Equipped with 90mm. guns, the Grants had a devastating effect on the German machines at 2000yds., which was 700yds. further than the Germans’ range. >
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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