Word: adem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the pilots moved on to El Adem, Eustace was a different rooster. Every day, as soon as the 1 p.m. BBC news broadcast began, Clarabelle laid an egg for the R.A.F. It has been that way ever since. Last week Eustace and Clarabelle were with the pilots in El Alamein, ready for Rommel, or anything...
Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, El Adem, Acroma. Germany's Erwin Rommel was 200 miles to the east, rolling into Matr...
Next day, just after 1 p.m., small specks appeared on the crest of the distant El Adem escarpment. The Tobruk commanders anxiously watched them through field glasses. They were tanks. At last the recognition signal came: red flashes, a 20-second pause, more flashes...
...Tobruch's own air base of El Adem, constructed at enormous expense for a permanent airdrome, one British mechanized patrol counted the charred fuselages of 40 planes, burned and twisted by R. A. F. bombs. The runways were pitted with a lacework of craters. The hangars and machine shops were battered to rubble. The plush officers' quarters, completed down to tile bathrooms, were sagging ruins. At El Gubbi the story was the same. At El Gazála they found 35 more wrecked planes. The Italians had abandoned their air bases as far west...