Word: agedabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away the next morning. And for three days I waited at Gambut ... for another plane to Agedabia, and when that plane took off it was loaded with 30-gallon drums of gasoline lashed to the sides of the cabin with ropes. I was the only passenger...
...when the dashing, young American pilot came into Agedabia, he landed downwind and bounced across the rough field like a kangaroo and poked the plane's nose into the mud. . . . The lashings on the gasoline drums broke, and strong men groaned as they lifted the drums off me. I groaned, too. And in the week I spent with broken ribs in a hospital tent at Agedabia, I missed the day we moved into El Agheila. . . . But, lying in that tent, surrounded by men who had been blown up by mines, I discovered that no matter how badly...
CAIRO -- British Imperial troops smashing an Axis delaying action in a three-day battle, streamed through Agedabia tonight toward El Aghelis, 70 miles to the southwest, while American and British planes teamed in a day-and-night assault on the enemy reinforcement route to North Africa...
...desert rains came last week Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's tactical units were still waiting to do final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted...
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...