Word: derna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...28th day Hamet's fear of his brother got too much for him. He disappeared into the desert, but was soon brought back "cringing with apology." By April 6, the invaders were within 120 miles of their objective city, Derna. Starved and thirsty on half rations, they found water in a cistern in which two presumably murdered Arabs were floating. But Hamet and his followers refused to move on without more food...
Governor in the Harem. The crusade soon got under way again, after a courier brought word of U.S. warships in the harbor of nearby Bomba, a scant 40 miles from Derna...
...Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
...Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
...Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...