Word: libyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noised abroad that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had resigned, leaving Vichy to wily Vice Premier Jean François Darlan, that German troops were already sluicing through France toward Spain, northwest Africa, and the western relief of Axis Libyan forces...
...south of Bengasi, Rommel seemed to be facing disaster. His only outlet for the forces caught on the Barca Plateau is Bengasi. Under bombing and shelling from the sea, the port may become a jagged-edged bottleneck. This week the British began increasing their aerial activity against Axis Libyan ports. They hoped they were entering the last round of the Ritchie-Rommel fight-to-a-finish...
Data on the comparative fighting abilities of Germans and Italians: > Axis prisoner arrivals in Egypt via Alexandria totaled 8,108 by mid-December (as against the 180,000 Italians captured in the first Libyan campaign). > Captured Italians from Libya and German fifth columnists from Iran were landed in Australia. For every eight Germans: one guard. For every 40 Italians: one guard...
...beleaguered Europe, in blood-stained Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...
Speaking to Parliament, Winston Churchill minced no words as he reviewed the war. Of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales, he said: "In my whole experience I do not remember any naval blow so heavy or so painful." Of the Libyan offensive (see p. 26): "[It] did not take the course that the authors expected-though it will reach the end at which they aimed." Of the reduction in U.S. aid: "The gap must be filled, and only our own efforts will fill...