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In Libya, General Rommel& #39;s Afrikakorps have launched a surprise attack against British, Indian & French troops holding the defensive "Gazala Line" in the desert.
Allied forces hold the Gazala Line, a chain of bunkers running south through Libyan desert; Germans are going around the side.
While feint attack on Gazala Line distract the British, most of the Afrikakorps swoops south into the desert, outflanking Allies & hoping for a decisive enirclement.
Southern end of the Gazala Line is defended by Free French forces. Susan Travers, army driver & lover of a French General, is at Bir Hacheim in south Libya- now under Axis attack.
Travers, the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, is renowned as "La Miss" for her daredevil driving. An Italian tank brigade now attacking Legion& #39;s fortifications at Bir Hacheim.
Susan: "I saw 80 enemy tanks, firing wildly... I retreated to my dugout, listening to distant landmines explode under the huge metal monsters."
