Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supplies for the South. To sustain themselves the Allies have had to move supplies under heavy convoy across thousands of miles of ocean, and then over hundreds of miles of muddy mountain highways and desert trails...
Supplies for the Eighth Army on the southern front have to be shipped from Britain, the U.S. and Canada around the tip of South Africa, through the Red Sea and Suez to Alexandria (see map). A desert railroad and coastal shipping, now almost free of Axis air attack in the eastern Mediterranean, move material from Alexandria to Bengasi. At Bengasi supplies are picked up and transported by a fast fleet of more than 100,000 motor lorries,* which move some 2,400 tons a day along a 600-mile ribbon of road across Libya to Tripoli. To keep the lorries...
...reappointment, Truman did his best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...
...weight of Rommel's suddenly concentrated assault was too heavy. The old hands of Rommel's desert army were too smart for freshmen U.S. troops. As the British had done at Knightsbridge, U.S. tanks charged blindly into German ambushes. German 88-mm. cannon blasted them to bits. Swift-moving German columns surrounded and cut them...
These tanks of the Sixth Armored Division, churning the sands of their California desert training center, are more proof that the U.S., as tankers say, "has armored equipment to burn." Last week U.S. tanks were burned, literally, by Rommel's swift thrust in Tunisia. The U.S., though it had an abundance of tanks at home, had lost a substantial part of its front-line force in Africa. It would take long weeks, and many a tank safely shipped overseas to build that force up again...