Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hello, Frisco, Hello" has first billing, but the biggest attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...
Rommel was now retiring into country beautifully adapted for siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
...Matter of Experience. U.S. ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...
What should be done with soldiers who desert? Should surly soldiers who refuse to obey orders be imprisoned and dishonorably discharged? Such problems, which every army must face, were being met in the U.S. last week in nine new camps designed for salvage and reclamation of substandard soldiers...
Convinced that the Stuka had been a nuisance rather than a menace through most of the great desert campaign, the R.A.F. reiterated one of its favorite tactical doctrines: not only the Stuka but the dive-bomber itself was obsolete...