During Operation Crusader, the British failed to destroy Afrika Korps, and Hitler, fearful of the possibility of a disaster in Africa, sent significant air and supplies to the Mediterranean.

On May 27, 1942, around 5 am, a German radio watcher intercepted a report sent by one of the crews: "They are on the enemy tanks column, it looks like the whole damned Afrika Korps."

Last night at 22:00, Axis's allies attacked Allied positions near El Ghazala. Rommel's plan was to march south, bypass the left wing of the United Kingdom, and turn his rear to the north - hitting the Ritchie's 8th Army. Rommel thought that he would be able to reach Tobruk quickly and then to the capital of Egypt.
