Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of leaders, maniacs excepted, would tackle Uncle Sam-particularly now when the desert blisters and the Russian Bear bites...
...afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert infantry. To Rommel they were cannon fodder to save his tanks and armored cars...
...Rommel was not much better off than the Italians this week. British southern units cutting northwest from the desert oases apparently blocked his exit to Tripolitania. A force of Coldstream Guards, Royal Armoured Corps and South African armored cars moved southward from Bengasi to close the pincer...
...beleaguered Europe, in blood-stained Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...
Tanks may soon be air-conditioned, if they are intended for desert or arctic warfare...