Word: capuzzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While correspondents wondered how he would attack the British strongholds near the border-Fort Capuzzo, Salûm, Halfâya-a British communiqué dryly remarked that "much enemy movement" had been observed to the south. Shells from heavy field guns in Bardia, crashing over the British positions, protected this movement. The British saw that again they were in danger of being outflanked...
...long did the British allow themselves the luxury of pleasant surprise. They chased the counter-raiders with an energetic counter-counter-raid, right through Hellfire Pass, out of Salûm, all the way to Fort Capuzzo, across the border in Libya. They took 500 German prisoners, but they knew they could not follow through. Sir Archibald was not quite ready. They in turn turned around. The Germans counter-counter-counter-attacked and retook Salûm and the pass which had earned its nickname...
...Libya. The prisoners were not British, they were Italian-31,546 of them (so far counted), including 1,626 officers. It was not a Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British tanks and Bren gun-carriers whipped around the port of Bardia, outflanking it as they had outflanked Sidi Barrani and Salum...
...wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased the remainder of what British communiques calmly called "the beaten Italian Army." This week they captured Salum and Fort Capuzzo...
This week Italian communiques admitted that the British had crossed the border, and that there was fierce fighting in the Salum-Bardia-Fort Capuzzo triangle. Italians tried to break up British naval bombardment of the area by sending in the submarine Naiade. Destroyers screening bigger vessels closed in on the Naiade and sank her at once. The R. A. F. carried on tirelessly, and the bag of Italian planes grew into the dozens...