Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...released British prisoner climbed in the desert heat with a note in his hand. The hot place he had reached was Bir Hachéim, a four-mile-square, mine-necklaced plateau in the Libyan desert. The note was addressed to General Pierre Koenig, the Free French commander of this southern anchor of the Allied line. It was from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and it said: Surrender, or suffer the consequences...
ZINDERS PLANE CRASHED DESERTWARDING HE DETAINED HOSPITAL BADLY BRUISED SHAKEN BUT EXPECTS OUT DAYER TWO STOP HE COMPLETELY CHEERFUL HOPES GET DESERT SHORTLIEST SENDS SALAAMS EVERYBODY...
Perhaps you read in your newspaper that Harry Zinder, head of the TIME and LIFE Cairo office, was hurt in an airplane crash last week on his way to the Western Desert to cover the great tank battle in Libya...
Thrice before, the Axis had struck eastward across North Africa, twice before the British had counter-driven to the west. Now for the fourth time the Axis attacked. From tank parks south of Derna, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazis' smartest desert general, sent his divisions toward the Allied post at Bir Hacheim south of Tobruk. While Italian tanks made a holding attack on the post and were beaten off by Free French defenders with a loss of 35 Axis machines, 250 German tanks made an end run clear around Bir Hacheim, veered north toward the coast and Tobruk...
...British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...