Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That same problem delayed General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery in the east. His Eighth Army had moved some 700 miles beyond its base at El Alamein. Until recaptured Bengasi was restored as a usable port, each tank on Montgomery's new front required the exclusive service of a 1,000-gallon self-propelled tank truck. The gasoline supply problem alone was mountainous. The problems of food, ammunition and spare parts piled mountain upon mountain...
Civil War. The day General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From the Valebit Mountains in Dalmatia a second force, called the Partisans of Lika, moved to meet them. From the northeast came a third army of Croat irregulars...
Erwin Rommel gained one distinction from the last Libyan campaign. He conducted one of the longest retreats in military history. By last week he had traversed 900 miles from his shattered line at El Alamein...
...Price of Victory. Though the Nazi losses in the Alamein battle were colossal, the British also paid heavily. Batteries of German 88-mm. guns mowed hundreds of Aussies down before the Germans were driven back for good. But the Aussies proved themselves superior...
...Rewards. West of El Alamein we came to an airfield full of dozens of dispersed Me-109Fs in almost perfect condition. The Luftwaffe had fled in near panic, but its leavings were evidence that Germany is still a long way from exhaustion...