Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, 140 miles east of the Chianti bottle, General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander of the Middle East, pored over reports telling the story of the battle. He sat in close communion with a thin, jug-eared man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Upon these two depended the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean. In their strategical structure, Egypt is the keystone...
...CAIRO--German tanks have run through a heavy Allied air and artillery barrage to reinforce Axis troops trapped against the Egyptian coast by Australian infantrymen, but all attempts to break out of the pocket have been beaten back, it was announced tonight...
...Cairo censors allowed correspondents to suggest that the defeat of the Afrika Korps was an indispensable preliminary to invasion of southern Europe...
...CAIRO--Allied troops are battering steadily into the El Alamein line and deserters and prisoners pouring in from the enemy lines, many of whom fought in Russia, admit that the British artillery barrages are worse than anything they endured before Leningrad. Moscow, and Smolensk, front dispatches said tonight...
...CAIRO--Allied troops advanced slowly but steadily on the Egyptian battlefront today, picking their way through deep mine and barbed wire defenses and mopping up isolated Axis units at bayonet point, while protecting Allied fliers claimed 21 more Axis planes shot down, two supply ships sunk and two desert truck caravans scattered...