Word: agheila
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...again. Mudholes were drying up. Allied planes once more were in the air over Rommel's thinning columns, over El Agheila and over Tripoli. The question still was whether he could organize his haggard, battered Afrika Korps for a stand at the El Agheila bottleneck. Rommel might yet earn even more distinction...
CAIRO--The British Eighth Army was believed setting up tonight a big pincers movement on El Agheila, designed to clamp down on German Marshal Erwin Rommels shattered forces from both west and east when and if they attempt a stand in the narrow corridor there...
CAIRO--The British Eighth Army, after hurtling across the Libyan hump in a one-day advance of 66 to 90 miles, converged on Benghazi today in pursuit of Axis armies reported digging in for a desperate stand at El Agheila, 140 miles to the southwest...
Imimi, 38 miles southeast of Derna, fell Saturday and with it the last possible Axis defense line east of Benghazi, however, aerial reports that Axis ships were evacuating Benghazi harbor indicated that German Marshal Erwin Rommel will not halt his fleeing forces cast of the marshes around EI Agheila, 140 miles southwest of Benghazi...