Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaatz was Chief of Air Staff under Arnold, and the following year went to England to set up the Eighth Air Force. Late in 1942 he headed south to command the Allied Northwest African Air Forces through the Mediterranean campaigns, and last January he returned to England to boss all U.S. heavy bombing in Europe...
...Some people," said Churchill, "think that our foreign policy toward Spain is best expressed by drawing comical or even rude caricatures of General Franco, but I think there is more than that." Specifically: Spain might have wrecked Allied plans for the North African invasion. As many as 600 invasion planes at one time crowded Gibraltar's airfield within range of Spanish guns; a great fleet of Allied shipping rested in Spanish waters, under Spanish guns. But the Spaniards did not interfere. If they had, "the Strait of Gibraltar would have been closed, and all access to the Mediterranean would...
Hunting de Luxe. Rich sportsmen, who paid $2,000 a month for Klein's services, remember him best for streamlining the safari. He blazed motor paths to first-class hunting grounds, organized the East African Guides Association to staff his fleets of cars and trucks. Barring the chase itself, his expeditions became as comfortable as weekend fishing trips...
...Elizabeth, the Heiress Presumptive, had a chance to get better acquainted with a pillar of her Empire. Most menacing to Jan Smuts's sleep are Winston Churchill's dinners. Britain's Prime Minister likes to talk on & on, until 2 or 3 a.m., sipping the South African brandy which his good right hand, Jan Smuts, thoughtfully brought along from the Cape...
Since 1938, when 55-year-old Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay went on the Royal Navy's retired list, he has: 1) evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk; 2) planned the North African expedition; 3) organized the Sicily invasion; 4) turned (last December) to planning the naval phase of the Second Front...