Word: libyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With apparent ease, the large and evergrowing German force on the Libyan border pushed the British out of Salûm and about five miles into Egypt's land. Then it paused. The British admitted that the pause was none of their doing: they had withdrawn, and had merely maintained light mechanized patrols touching the Axis advance, to keep tabs...
Tobruch, lying on the flank of Axis communications across the Libyan desert, had been held by a small British garrison ever since the initial German drive. Before the Axis attack on Egypt went any farther, it would be wise to try to knock...
...riel. Winston Churchill admitted that it had been impossible for the men to get their heavy equipment off. Apparently the British lost most of the armament of the one armored brigade and whatever heavy artillery was on hand. Previously Prime Minister Churchill had said that the Libyan border had been left to the defense of one armored brigade. This sounded as though there were precious little armored equipment left the British in the Near East...
Last week Britons had to reckon with Captain Liddell Hart's now very possible possibility. The German Libyan offense went into its third week of apparent doldrum. The British, worrying about morale at home, made much of their successes-a naval assault on Tripoli in which the town was given a thorough shellacking, a few raids out of Tobruch against Axis supply lines, a seaborne raid near Bardia in which a bridge was said to have been blown up, a few tank patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces...
Vichy sources made the flat assertion that the Germans were concentrating a force at the Cufra Oases, 500 miles south of the Libyan coast. The force was said to have been flown in, complete with air-carried baby tanks. Only British air reconnaissance could tell whether this was fact or fable. A Rome report, answering the British protest that no. soldier could operate in the desert's summer heat (as high as 130°), was that the German tanks were equipped with refrigeration pipes...