Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However the bombings helped shipping to Africa, it was too late to help one big chunk of Rommel's Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...
...battlefield of World War II has been more often contested than the 100-mile arc that fans north of Changsha, mid-China communications junction. Three times in three years the Japanese have slashed their way down from the Yangtze to fail almost at the gates of the city's smoke-stained shell...
...Threats. Meantime, in the sheltered water of Lamon Bay, first at Atimonan and later at Mauban, the Jap put down another heavy force. It had tanks, and tanks were sent out to meet it. In a heavy engagement both sides suffered considerable losses on a battlefield between 60 and 75 miles from Manila. From Lamon Bay the Jap thrust toward the southwest, flung himself across the narrow peninsula south from Mauban to Tayabas...
...take Bengasi, the capital of Cyrenaica, Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, in charge on the battlefield, had to push out Germany's General Erwin Rommel. All last week Rommel had prepared to make a stand at Bengasi with what was left of his armored forces. Apparently changing his mind, or afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert...
...homebodies, the field where U.S. soldiers were giving their lives (see p. 16) seemed the most urgent. But to the Allied strategists, there was no more important battlefield than Malaya. On that battlefield Singapore was at stake. At Singapore the future of the Allies in Asia was at stake...