Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
...than upheld their end of the show. This earned Branch Rickey no vote of confidence from the Brooklyn skeptics. Baseball fans, like military armchair strategists, are impatient for quick victories. But Rickey is a realistic general with the long view. He stands firm before Brooklyn like Montgomery before El Alamein...
...like to say something about the British Tommy . . . not only for myself but for every American who has seen active service with the British. . . . For sheer guts and the ability to keep coming back he has no superiors. I remember one night at Alamein. . . . We were trying to get through the minefields. . . . Tanks were to blast their way through, spread out on the other side, and work forward. We were being followed by a unit of light infantry...
...Trouble. Undaunted, Correspond ent Treanor sidled up to some New Zealanders, was taken along into the Battle of El Alamein. Treanor went with them into enemy gunfire, saw five days of the battle before the British discovered him. This time they complained to the U.S. Army. Treanor was ordered by his paper to leave the Near East, fast. The first plane out was one bound for India. Treanor hopped...
...interrupted the Axis remarkably well. In the month of January, they stopped one-third of all Axis ships headed for Africa. Admiral Cunningham is not easily satisfied; he said that was not enough. Altogether, the record of sinkings from Oct. 21, 1942, two days before the attack at El Alamein started, until last week was as follows (aircraft include Fleet...