Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Army was reorganized in depth, reinforced with "every gun and tank that could be rushed up from the Nile delta. To leave the desert army free of anxiety about its rear, a new army was brought into being along the Nile...
...Mobility was stressed. Everybody had "a seat in a lorry." Desert signaling devices were improved...
From Madagascar to the Libyan Desert a single battle is being fought: the battle to keep Africa open as the supply crossroads of the United Nations. Rommel's dusty warriors menaced the land bridge between Africa and the Middle East. Vichy intrigue and Japanese submarines at Madagascar menaced the waterway up the African coast toward Eritrea, Suez. Persia and Russia...
Three years ago Africa's strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
These no longer unusual scenes took place last week in the California desert...