Word: bengasi
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...London Times divulged to its readers last week "a disagreeable surprise." Bengasi had fallen into Axis hands again. Later in the week it had a pleasant surprise: Addis Ababa had fallen into British hands without a struggle...
...eight Axis supply ships and transports. This suggested that new troops, possibly German, were being hurriedly ferried across to Libya. Last week Berlin and Rome proudly announced that a German motorized advance patrol had met and defeated a British patrol near Agedábia, about 95 miles south of Bengasi and well to the east of the farthest point of British advance...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir John Greer Dill flew to Cairo last week. The two men carried with them a tremendous responsibility. Two weeks before, the British had captured Bengasi, and for two weeks the Imperial Army of the Nile had been consolidating its conquests. The messages these two men took from London to General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, the discussions all three would have, and the plans Sir Archibald and his aides would then draw up -these things would decide not only the future operations of the Army...
...vindicated, Anthony Eden's faith in Sir Archibald Wavell certainly was. In the startling conquest of Cyrenaica, he had proved himself the best general the British have produced in the entire war. When war in Africa began, Archie Wavell was virtually unknown outside his profession. By the time Bengasi fell, he was world-famous...
...overture might proceed, it seemed clear that Hitler's Bulgarian grab would soon be succeeded by a wide Eastern Mediterranean push. At week's end, the great question was whether Britain's Imperial Army of the Nile, whose whereabouts have been unreported since the fall of Bengasi, was being convoyed under the guns of newly fortified Lemnos across the Mediterranean to meet the challenge...