Word: aghelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Term. The Allies in North Africa had offered Hitler a second front (TIME, Nov. 16) and Hitler had accepted the offer. German reinforcements in Tunisia and even the Afrika Corps's retreat from El Aghéila toward Tripoli fitted into the German plan for a counteroffensive. So did Franco's belligerent words & deeds...
Once again the fox was in flight. For three weeks, while General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cautiously poked at him, Erwin Rommel had crouched in the bottleneck of El Aghéila, holed up. Montgomery had been in no hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...
...orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand in the triangle near El Aghéila. General Strickland says of Coningham: "There...
...Aghéila&151;the high-water mark of the previous British advance across the desert&151;Erwin Rommel was in a perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...