Word: crete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LONDON--Smashing Allied air blows from Crete to Tunisia, involving the destruction or crippling of 51 enemy planes, and generally improved Allied positions in both Libya and Tunisia pointed tonight to an early opening of the decisive battles for North Africa...
...Many Junkers? The Luftwaffe was reported to have at least five thousand 528 and other transport planes at the war's start. But the Balkan campaign, Crete and the trans-Mediterranean supply of Rommel must have absorbed a big proportion of the available transports. The Germans in Tunisia now require many more for their prodigious air-supply operation via Sicily...
...first really great picture of World War II. Less epic than All Quiet on the Western Front, the cinema's classic on World War I, In Which is more moving. It is the story of a British destroyer, from her launching in 1939 to her sinking off Crete in 1941. So real is her story and that of the men who sailed in her that when the film was first shown in London, tears poured down the cheeks of bluejackets and hardened critics...
...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...
...R.A.F. fighters and the heavy bombers of Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force, sprinkling paratroops into strategic spots, raining destruction on Axis-held airfields. Major General* Doolittle's job was just beginning. London reported that Hitler had massed 1,000 planes in Sicily, Sardinia, south Italy and Crete. If he launched them into North Africa, Doolittle and his U.S. and R.A.F. flyers would have their hands full...