Word: bengasi
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy) had treated the Axis Libyan supply port at Bengasi to a thorough shelling...
Encirclement via Ether. An R.A.F. reconnaissance plane flying as far as Bengasi saw an interesting but sobering sight on Benina airfield, eleven miles from Bengasi: drawn up, wing to wing and nose to tail, were at least 100 Junkers transport planes. Each plane was big enough to carry 25 men. In Greece transports like these had been used to land field artillery and armored cars behind the British lines...
Serious Business. The loss of four top-flight generals was almost as bad news as the misfortune in which they were lost -a six-day Nazi advance from Bengasi right into Egypt. Their loss underlined an interesting feature of General Sir Archibald Wavell's technique of generalship...
...British nowhere put up real resistance. They claimed they evacuated Bengasi without losing a man. The British communiqué stated that British advance forces had withdrawn "to choose our own battleground." The British were evidently perfectly willing to cede territory, since in desert warfare, as in sea warfare, the destruction of enemy fighting units is the only thing that counts...
About 20,000 Germans and Italians were actively participating in the drive in Libya, and they were thought to have more than twice as many in reserve. That the British were not unduly depressed by the fall of Bengasi was due to the fact that growing Sahara heat will impede the Axis advance and that soon British troops in East Africa may be free to turn to the defense of Egypt...