Word: halfaya
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With this, the largest Axis pocket, cleaned out, the British went to work on two smaller pockets: Halfaya Pass and Salum. If these could be taken quickly, there was a fair chance that Ritchie would still have time to do battle with Rommel at Agedabia before Axis reinforcements arrived...
...dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would not be able to press on through the gate until the Tobruch threat was eliminated...
Axis troops, mostly Italian, besieged the town. The defenders nipped attack after attack, and claimed 35 tanks and 1,500 Germans and Italians. Farther east, at the border between Libya and Egypt, the British claimed to be holding the Axis force at and around Halfaya ("Hell-fire") Pass...