Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 185 miles. Covered with rock salt and slimy quicksand, Qattara is as desolate and lifeless as anything this side of the moon. Only generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces at El Alamein in the neck of land between the Mediterranean and the nearly 1,000 ft. drop of the Depression, and thus kept Rommel's Afrika Korps from Suez. The Qattara was worth 200 armored divisions, said Rommel-to the British...