Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now Aldridge is assigned to Teheran in Persia at Russia's back door-with a beat that might call for his jumping almost a thousand miles west to Aleppo or south to the Indian Ocean. Last month he took a 560-mile trip north to the Caspian and the Soviet border-along the dusty, rutted highway that is now Russia's "Burma Road." Near the Lake of Urmia, at Tabriz, he saw U.S. sergeants more than 12,000 miles from home helping Soviet workmen assemble army trucks-later talked with Red Army officers and men moving around...
...Captured Aleppo and 300 German planes at the airport there...
...Palmyra, Aleppo. The two columns coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
Objective of the upper column, of British-led Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...
...Aleppo-Latakia column was believed to be headed by Major John Bagot Glubb, commandant for the past decade of Trans-Jordan's independent Arab Legion and another latter-day Lawrence of Arabia...