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...early Spring, General Wavell's drive across Libya had taken the British advance units just beyond: 1. Derna. 2. Tripoli. 3. Tobruch. 4. Bengasi...
...Sidi Barrani. Salum, Bardia. Tobruch and Derna fell, the fleet immediately used the larger ports to supply the advancing Army, and to drain the area of its flood of prisoners. The efficient way the fleet did this job, contrasted with the crumbling of Italian communications, accounted in large measure for the speed of the campaign...
Flag Over Dérna. On March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley...
...heard this tale, Benito Mussolini had no idea that any flag but the Italian would be raised over Derna in his lifetime. He proceeded to subsidize Italian farmers to colonize the place. But last week British advance units swept on from Tobruch, 95 miles to the outskirts of Derna. They found the place practically undefended. The farmers and most of the town's population of 21,500 had been evacuated. The main body of the Italian Army had moved on toward Bengasi. It looked as if the place was British for the asking...
...detachment had spent Christmas Day in an abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...