Word: caps
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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...
...with a 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...
More than a military campaign ended last week on hilly Cap Bon. Adolf Hitler's "Plan-Süd" (Southern Plan) for an African-Middle Eastern Empire also collapsed, and with it Italy's hopes of empire...
After the capture of Tunis, Anderson's army paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units were badly split and their communications were cut. Liaison was impossible. Some corps and division headquarters surrendered before their soldiers had the order to cease fire...
...splashy, garish makeup, screams in black, tricky headlines. Sample: MRS. COOLIDGE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RUN (when the former President's wife refused the commandership of Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps). Last week the evening Globe headlined a story of Axis forces trapped on Tunisia's Cap Bon: BOTTLED...