Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British officials in Cairo, who have learned to speak warily of any Allied victory in the desert, declined to confirm Willkie's figure. Their own "confirmed" figure: 42. But in England Churchill crowed to the House of Commons: "The House . . . may be confident in our ability to maintain a successful defense of Egypt-not for days or weeks but for several months ahead...
Before the battle of El Hemeimat, Britain's chances of holding Rommel in the desert had seemed desperately scant. In Rommel's last attack the Eighth Army had lost more than 80,000 men, to say nothing of huge amounts of munitions and supplies which Rommel had confiscated and put to his own use. The army had been driven 400 miles back, was disorganized and discouraged. Then...
...distance into British mine fields, swung toward the seacoast. This was Rommel's Sturm, Schwung, Wucht.* The operation was reminiscent of the wide sweep he had made around Bir Hachéim in May. But Alexander and Montgomery were ready for him. They had learned some lessons about desert warfare...
...They used their air power in teamwork with ground forces. At Rommel's advancing columns they unleashed the fiercest air attack the desert has yet seen. Along with the British planes were U.S. bombers of Colonel C. G. Goodrich's command and U.S. fighters under the command of Brigadier General Auby Strickland. They routed the Luftwaffe by the very weight of numbers, until they were able to blast Rommel at will, morning, noon and night...
...bitterly long time the Army has lost skirmishes in the spare parts and maintenance war. In the same war Field Marshal Rommel has often won victories in the desert by patching up busted tanks and planes, while the British, brave fighters but indifferent to machinery, won defeats. Under the tents that serve as machine shops in the desert the U.S. means to win victories, but first...