Defense officials at the Pentagon said the Apaches encountered heavy groundfire during their assault on the Medina armored division. One official said many Apaches were hit by fire.
To rescue Mussolini from disaster, Hitler dispatches one of his best generals over to Libya, General Rommel, along with his armour division, the Afrika Korps.
However, according to the commander of 4th Panzer Army Group, General Heppner, " This war must be lead with unprecedented brutality. There is to be no mercy for the Bolsheviks."