{"id":66704,"date":"2026-08-14T23:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66704"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:52:10","slug":"an-excellent-short-film-by-yarnhub-about-a-rommel-victory-at-the-battle-of-gazala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/08\/14\/an-excellent-short-film-by-yarnhub-about-a-rommel-victory-at-the-battle-of-gazala\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent short film by Yarnhub about a Rommel victory at the Battle of Gazala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the end of May and the end of June 1942, a major battle between the Allies and the Axis took place near Gazala, Libya.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/18\/the-history-of-the-tiger-131-the-large-german-tank-that-appeared-in-the-movie-fury\/\">The history of the Tiger 131, the large German tank that appeared in the movie 'Fury'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/02\/the-star-of-africa-the-german-ace-who-shot-down-three-allied-aces-in-a-single-dogfight\/\">The 'Star of Africa': the German ace who shot down three Allied aces in a single dogfight<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Battle of Gazala pitted a major German and Italian force<\/strong>, consisting of about 90,000 men and 560 tanks, <strong>against a numerically superior Allied army:<\/strong> about 110,000 men and 843 tanks from British, French, Indian, Polish, and South African forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464612620_14716f04ea_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464612620_430ecc12b6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A photo of Erwin Rommel in 1942 (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cassowaryprods\/36299043150\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cassowary Colorizations<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The always recommendable YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Yarnhub\" target=\"_blank\">Yarnhub<\/a> <strong>has published an excellent video recreating one of the engagements that took place at the beginning of the battle<\/strong>, about 24 kilometers east of Bir Hakeim, between armored forces of the British Army, specifically <strong>the 7th Armoured Division (nicknamed \"Desert Rats\"), and the 15th Panzer Division of the German Afrika Korps<\/strong>, a victory largely due to that strategic genius, <strong>Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, nicknamed \"The Desert Fox\":<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When the Desert Fox Hunted Desert Rats\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6pMty3UE3FY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This short film shows in great detail the types of tanks and ammunition used by each side, and also some of the key aspects of Rommel's military leadership<\/strong>, such as his preference for remaining close to the front lines with his men, motivating the soldiers with his presence and his ability to improvise on the fly with risky and surprising maneuvers. <strong>I feel a deep contempt for the Third Reich, but at the same time, great admiration for this great German military leader<\/strong>, who had already demonstrated his audacity and great leadership skills during the First World War. Here are some screenshots from this excellent video as a preview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464612625_e37b30540d_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464612625_0e1acc7e2f_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464218826_3ea39676d3_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464218826_c0bc5d01b9_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55463238667_87b20c70c4_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55463238667_0e6a9767a2_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464342943_a171e070b0_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55464342943_0bf2aae435_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the end of May and the end of June 1942, a major battle between the Allies and the Axis took place near Gazala, Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19630,15961,11549],"tags":[27653,27652,8161,18780,27654,18901,9997,27649,16710,17761,4697],"class_list":["post-66704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1a-plana-defense-eng","category-bloque-6-english","category-military-history","tag-15-panzer-division","tag-7th-armoured-division-desert-rats","tag-africa","tag-afrika-korps","tag-battle-of-gazala","tag-bir-hakeim","tag-british-army","tag-erwin-rommel","tag-german-army","tag-lybia","tag-wehrmacht"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:52:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}