Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done a better job. He was a man of the year, of the decade, and, if his cause won, of all time. But as Man of 1941 he had one great weakness. Twice his soldiers had conquered Cyrenaica-they had to, because they lost it betweentimes. In Greece and Crete his armies had met disaster. After more than two years of war under his leadership, Britain was still losing campaigns...
...swept through Poland. In 1940 he conquered all the strongholds of Western Europe. In 1941 he conquered Greece and Crete-and Libya for a time. But in 1941 he tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead involved Germany in an exhausting war-a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined her chances for ultimate victory...
...rumors held that Germany's likeliest next move was an attack on the island of Malta, Britain's commanding base in the Mediterranean. German-Italian air raids on Malta had multiplied, and it was remembered that the Nazis had perfected the parachute technique of island attack in Crete...
...this, we face a failure so general that the inadequacy of this man or the other cannot account for it. A ruling class was on its trial and here, as in Norway and Crete, it has broken down. A national tradition has for generations discouraged intelligence and science, to concentrate on sports and what it calls Character. Here is the result. History may decide that the kind of character that led the Russians to scorch their earth and blow up their Dnieper Dam has the higher survival value...
...Netherlands Indies, Greece and China. M-H equipment has been war-tested aplenty. The British were so pleased with their first M-H trucks (they went over desert sand like camels) that they bought about 100,000 units, are now using many of them in the Libyan push. In Crete, scores of British-and Greek-owned M-H light tanks fought mightily before being blasted to bits by Nazi bombers. Dutch-owned M-H tanks and gun carriers now plough through the jungles of Sumatra in pursuit of Jap paratroops...