Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burbank, it landed beside the great Lockheed and Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the clouds, over the Painted Desert, past the San Francisco Mountains, whose highest peak rises higher than sacred Fujiyama. When the plane came down at Albuquerque (on another huge new Army air field) Saburo Kurusu had already flown in the U.S. farther than from Shanghai to Chungking. And he was less than a third...
...crisis in Greece, rather than General Wavell's personal ideas, dictated the dispersal of his Middle Eastern forces last spring. And a shortage of supply, rather than miscalculation, left General Wavell with few troops and little equipment in the Western Desert while his best men were in Greece. His gravest mistake was in not recognizing the preparations the Axis was making for a push. This may have been a matter of bad reconnaissance, bad staff work, or a dozen other things, including good German camouflage, but it could hardly be called an error of strategy...
This term "in good health" is liberally interpreted, the only prerequisite being that he must be able to drive a car well, and stand up under the rigors of a desert campaign. According to Professor Casner, and the service's downtown office, there is one man in the ambulance corps who has lost the sight of one eye, and many others who are physically handicapped in one way or another...
...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...desert some of our British armored-car men were lost and dying of thirst and starvation. . . . They were in terribly bad condition. Balbo, who was of impulsive and generous nature, heard of their plight and got into a bombing plane, took an escort of two fighters and personally flew to the rescue of these British soldiers. Having picked them up, he flew the troops to an Italian hospital, then started back to Tobruk; his head quarters...