Word: algerianness
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...Alexandre and Moati, who gave U.S. and British troops the signal to land on an Algerian beach. Alexandre, before he escaped from France to Algiers, assisted in General Giraud's own escape from Vichyfrance to join the Allies...
Last summer high officers preparing the U.S. invasion of North Africa spent days absorbing Smith's records, and the invasion ships carried discs of three or four dialects. Soldiers en route learned phrases useful in military intelligence, such as WASH MIN WAKT TIB-DA SI-NEE-MA (Algerian for "When does the movie begin?"), and in reconnaissance, such as FAYN DAR LO-DOO (Moroccan for "Where is a toilet...
...thousands of U.S. troops landed along the 1,500-mile Moroccan-Algerian coastline. They picked up the cry: "Let's head east!" "East" meant Tunisia first, and after that a juncture with the British Eighth Army for the final mop-up somewhere in Libya of General Rommel's bedraggled Afrika Korps. Five or six fresh Italian divisions apparently are also intact and ready for battle somewhere in the Tripoli-Bengazi area. As long as the Axis was in Tunis, the way to Rommel's forces was barred...
Already the individual exploits of some of Jimmy Doolittle's flyers had been recorded. In a brush with the French they lost two Spitfires (one pilot was saved), downed three Dewoitines. Lieut. Colonel F. M. Dean destroyed five French tanks near the interior Algerian airdrome of Sidi-bel-Abbès. Lieut. Thomas Taylor attacked a gun post near Oran, got two bullets in his plane, then got a tank...
They made mistakes. A plane bombed an Algerian airdrome whose commanders had already been "arranged," causing a three-hour argument before the field was surrendered and planes flew in from a carrier offshore. A few transport and bomber pilots lost their way, landed in Spanish Morocco and were interned...