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Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...Iraq is the most vital city in the Middle Eastern theater: Basra, the river port which U.S. and British engineers have turned into a busy reception point for war shipments through the Persian Gulf. At the military worst, it would be to Basra that the Tenth Army would retire, for with Basra would go the Persian Gulf, and its access to South Africa, the South Atlantic, the U.S. and Britain. The battle for the bridge would first be a battle for overland rail and highway routes from Basra through Bagdad to Persia, the Caspian and Russia; then, at the blackest...
...Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...
...desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East Air Force. Thus India was further weakened and General Brereton was in a spot that could get hotter than anything he had seen since he and his Flying...
...October three or four vessels used to lie off Basra port in the Persian Gulf, waiting for the packers to send out the first full cargoes of dates. Within a few hours of each other they would get away in the annual race for New York. Usually a British Strick and a German Hansa liner vied for the lead; first one in with his 5,000 tons of dates got a premium of about $1.75 per ton. And Hills Brothers, biggest U.S. date importer (Dromedary), gave a handsome loving cup to the winning captain...