Battle of Arras: Rommel’s View

By William E. Welsh South of the crossroads of Arras in the Pas de Calais region of France, British and German troops are buried alongside each other. They were casualties of a gutsy British armored counterattack on May 21, 1940, by two British tank regiments against General-Major Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division. Rommel’s division was racing west toward the Channel coast on the right flank of General-Colonel Gerd von Rundstedt’s Army Group A at the time of a British counterattack. Th

Back to the issue this appears in