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In all seven torpedoes were dropped, three from the Richelieu's starboard quarter and four from port, but another two aircraft fell in the sea as they tried to escape, still at masthead height. The Richelieu was turning to port in an attempt to present as small as possible a target to the torpedoes now running barely over a fathom beneath the placid sea. One of the escorting destroyers, turning to avoid being ploughed under by the battleship, ran straight into a torpedo instead, which blew a gaping hole just aft of her bow.

Wavell, his victory over the Italians forgotten in the face of two major reverses, was removed from command and sent to India. His replacement, Auchinleck, by supreme irony, was an Indian veteran who knew no more of desert warfare than Wavell did of jungle tactics, even though he was a very able leader* . • Auchinleck had returned to England in 1940 and fought in Norway before his new appointment ion Egypt. ROAD TO CAIRO 57 Borchardt, himself somewhat misplaced being an old China hand and former adviser to Chiang Kai-Chek, nodded at Bayerlein.

Koch, Gericke and their men braced themselves for the shock of impact. 7-inch anti-aircraft gun position ringed with sandbags. The glider's co-pilot threw open the roof hatch and started laying down covering fire with the aircraft's single MG 15 machine-gun. A solitary British gunner managed to loose off a wild round but then Koch's men were in the enclosure and the gunners' hands went up. Other gliders were not so fortunate. One landed close to the control tower, inside the main defensive perimeter established by the Hampshires, and a grenade turned it into an inferno before its occupants could scramble out.

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