Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Britain came Will Lang with the "center force" of the American troops which landed at Oran-and Line Barnett, who sailed with the British forces and landed near Bone on the Tunisian border...
Axis planes pecked at Allied supply lines, pounded at their bases at Bougie and Bone. Axis submarines attacked sup porting warships and transports in the Mediterranean Sea. Armored columns-indicative of the strength which the Axis has succeeded in rushing into Tunisia-jabbed at the Allies' advancing columns. But step by step, through the valleys and over the rugged ridges of the Atlas Mountains, the Allied troops moved ahead...
...Preparation. Nazi dive-bombers, which claimed a heavy toll of shipping in the bight of Bougie, harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated...
...Undefeated, Hemingway's classic story of an aging matador's fight to a finish with a bull who is "all bone...
...Vichy radio reported that Bone, 50 miles west of the frontier fell at 10 o'clock to the swift Allied motorized and armored columns which now were believed very close to the border if some units had not already crossed for the showdown with the Axis...