Korps in a sentence

While sorting through the racks of clothing, Harry suddenly sees the famously 'shameful' costume of an Afrika Korps uniform, with a swastika at the sleeve.

Again, the Germans came to the rescue, this time by dispatching Rommel and his Afrika Korps.

Indian and Australian troops first fought together in 1915 in the trenches of Gallipoli against the Turks and thereafter against the onslaught of the Afrika Korps led by Rommel during the siege of Tobruk in 1941.

It was hoped that cutting off a vital source of fuel to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps might give the Allies the edge they needed to drive the Germans out of Africa.

Additionally, Marx was involved in certain disputes, some of which became serious: in August 1836 he took part in a duel with a member of the university's Borussian Korps.

All military specialities except the submarine service and the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Korps Mariniers) are open to women.

Background Retreat from Gazala Afrika Korps tank hunters with an Sd.

Barr (2005), p. 88 The next day, 3 July, Rommel ordered the Afrika Korps to resume its attack on the Ruweisat ridge with the Italian XX Motorised Corps on its southern flank.

By this stage the Afrika Korps had only 26 operational tanks.

Fighting continued throughout 3 November, but 2nd Armoured was held by elements of the Afrika Korps and tanks of the Littorio Division.

From this base, the battalion conducted combined operations with various French forces against the German Afrika Korps in Tunisia.

Hinsley, pp. 392—393 Battle Panzer Army Africa attacks A Panzer II of the Afrika Korps.

I was later told by Major von Luck, whose battalion I had sent to close the gap between the Italians and the Afrika Korps, that the Italians, who at that time represented our strongest motorised force, fought with exemplary courage.

On 21 January, Rommel launched the attack.sfnsfn Caught by surprise by the Afrika Korps, the Allies lost over 110 tanks and other heavy equipment.

Once again, 90th Light failed to make progress so Rommel called the Afrika Korps to abandon its planned sweep southward and instead join the effort to break through to the coast road by attacking east toward Ruweisat Ridge.

Part and parcel to intelligence operations, the SD carefully tracked foreign opinion and criticism of Nazi policies, censoring when necessary and likewise publishing hostile political cartoons in the SS weekly magazine, Das Schwarze Korps.

Repeated British counterattacks threatened to cut off and destroy the Afrika Korps.

The Italian XX Corps was to follow the Afrika Korps and deal with the Qattara box while the 133rd Armoured Division Littorio and German reconnaissance units would protect the right flank.

The Nazi Party of 1925 was divided into the "Leadership Corps" (Korps der politischen Leiter), appointed by Hitler, and the general membership (Parteimitglieder).