Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel Biography and Timeline — Page 5

Battle of Alamein, 2nd

Rommel's armour is badly reduced during the Second Battle of El Alamein while Hitler forbids withdrawal.

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Alamein, 2nd

The Afrika Korps is reduced to 114 tanks but Hitler orders that they must hold its ground

Role range: 1939-1945

Afrika Korps

Bernard Montgomery launches an attack on the Deutsches Afrika Korps at Kidney Ridge

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Kidney Ridge

Bernard Montgomery launches an attack on the Deutsches Afrika Korps at Kidney Ridge

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Tobruk

Rommel captures Tobruk. Bernard Montgomery launches an attack on the Deutsches Afrika Korps at Kidney Ridge

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Tobruk

Rommel captures Tobruk

Role range: 1939-1945

Siege of Tobruk

Rommel captures Tobruk. Bernard Montgomery launches an attack on the Deutsches Afrika Korps at Kidney Ridge

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Alamein, 2nd

Rommel begins withdrawing after Montgomery's forces break the Axis position at El Alamein.

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Tobruk

Rommell decides to withdraw from Tobruk, Hitler forces Rommel to stay. Bernard Montgomery launches an attack on the Deutsches Afrika Korps at Kidney Ridge

Role range: 1939-1945

Siege of Tobruk

Rommell decides to withdraw from Tobruk, Hitler forces Rommel to stay

Role range: 1939-1945

Supercharge

The Axis troops are forced to rereat

Role range: 1939-1945

Retreat from El Alamein

Begins the retreat from El Alamein after the Axis line is broken.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1941-1943

Battle of Alamein, 2nd

The Axis army is defeated at El Alamein and retreats westward across Libya.

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Bardia

The British recapture Bardia

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Alamein, 2nd

The Axis loss of Tobruk follows the retreat from El Alamein and weakens Rommel's North African position.

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Tobruk

British forces recapture Tobruk after the Axis retreat following the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Role range: 1939-1945

Afrika Korps

OKW upgrades its presence in Africa by creating the XC Army Corps in Tunisia & creating a new 5th Panzer Army headquarters under the command of Colonel General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Kasserine

Defeats the II US Corps in Tunisia

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Sidi Bou Zid

Defeats the II US Corps in Tunisia

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Basrat

Rommel tries to halt the Eighth 200 miles east of Tripoli but retreats to Tripoli

Role range: 1939-1945

Army Group Africa

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

First Army

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

Afrika Korps

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

Role range: 1939-1945

Army Group Africa

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

Role range: 1939-1945

First Army

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

Role range: 1939-1945

Heeresgruppe Afrika

The Panzer Army Africa, (now called the German-Italian Panzer Army,) is redesignated as the Italian First Army and put under the command of Italian general Giovanni Messe, while Rommel is placed in command of a new Army Group Africa (Heeresgruppe Afrika)

Role range: 1939-1945

Retreat

Rommel returns to Germany. Retreats to the Mareth Line within the Tunisian border. Persues Montgomerys Eighth Army but loses 52 tanks & is driven back

Role range: 1939-1945

North Africa Campaign

Leaves North Africa after the Axis withdrawal westward, ending his direct threat to Egypt and Suez.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1941-1943

Mobilization

Mobilizes Army Group B which then control the north of Italy

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

Takes over the defence of north France & the construction of the Atlantic Wall

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

Field Marshal Rommel begins inspection of Atlantic Wall, Germany's coastal defence system stretching from Norway to the Spanish frontier

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group B

Appointed Commander of Army Group B to defend Northern Italy from Allied landings

Atlantic Wall

Given the Allied air supremacy (12,000 Allied aircraft against 300 Luftwaffe fighters booby-trapped stakes known as Rommelspargel (Rommels asparagus) are set up on likely landing grounds to deter airborne landings

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

In addition to fresh units, von Rundstedt also received a new subordinate, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

Revitalises the defenders, who laboured to improve the defences of the entire coastline, steel obstacles are laid at the high-water mark on the beaches, concrete bunkers and pillboxes constructed, and low-lying areas flooded.

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

Rommel had recognized that for all their propaganda value, the Atlantic Wall fortifications covered only the ports themselves, the beaches between were barely defended, and the Allies could land there and capture the ports from inland.

Role range: 1939-1945

Atlantic Wall

Rommel originally intended only to make a tour of inspection of the Atlantic Wall, after reporting to Hitler, Rommel requested command of the defenders of northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands.

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group B

Appointed Commander of Army Group B to defend Northern Italy from Allied landings

Role range: 1939-1945

Luftwaffe

Given the Allied air supremacy (12,000 Allied aircraft against 300 Luftwaffe fighters booby-trapped stakes known as Rommelspargel (Rommels asparagus) are set up on likely landing grounds to deter airborne landings

Role range: 1939-1945

Rommelspargel

Given the Allied air supremacy (12,000 Allied aircraft against 300 Luftwaffe fighters booby-trapped stakes known as Rommelspargel (Rommels asparagus) are set up on likely landing grounds to deter airborne landings

Role range: 1939-1945