Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad because now he could savor the destroyer's task: to prevent a single German or Italian from escaping by sea and by day from the beaches of Cap Bon. This was the climax of the first great British-U.S. victory in the war, and he was not the only glad...
...ring of keys, unlocking the doors of supply from port to port. Submarines made nuisance bombardments of road and rail along the coast, and naval task forces shelled the retreating troops. Then began the double duty of the Tunisian campaign, until, last week, destroyers skimmed along by Cap Bon, permitting only the slightest leakage of the forlorn refugees from Axis Africa...
...Bon would never be a Bataan, any more than Tunisia had ever been a "Stalingrad or could ever be a Dunkirk. Bataan served a strategic purpose: it denied Manila Bay to the Japs for many weeks. Cap Bon can serve no strategic purpose: the Allies can push on toward Europe without...
There was still fighting to be done in Tunisia early this week. Axis remnants straggled toward Cap Bon, the thumb of the Tunisian hand pointing bluntly at Sicily. Some Germans and Italians were already there, and certain prepared defenses had been built. Correspondents spoke of the peninsula as a potential Bataan...
...French XIX Corps and units of the Eighth which had not moved north for the main attack (see col. 2) moved slowly forward, reducing the bulge. From the north, British armor cut down across the mouth of the Cap. slicing into the flank of the bulge. Cap Bon was just a place for a useless last stand...