Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bystanding Innocent. In the Egyptian desert, one of two Italian officers captured by the British made violent protest: "This is an outrage. We were not fighting, we were just looking...
Farewell to Arms. Bedouin tribesmen, darting out of the desert, pawed over the battlefields, scampered off with bulging sacks. Among the living wreckage were those who, hopelessly cut off from supplies and reinforcements, disheartened, parched with thirst, had chosen to give up. Among these were sullen pilots of the Luftwaffe who had been flying on the Russian front only a few days before, Italians carrying knapsacks and suitcases, glad that the fighting was over. The half dead and the wounded the British loaded into trucks and carted back to the suddenly overwhelmed hospitals of Cairo...
Rommel had been expected to make a stand at Hellfire Pass, on the Libyan border. In a desert dawn, last week, some 30 New Zealanders, whooping and firing, scaled the high escarpment that blocks the route west. An Italian force of several hundred men surrendered after a quarter-hour of token resistance. They were bitter at their German allies. Where was Marshal Rommel? That was what the Italians wanted to know. When they saw him next. . . . They drew their hands across their throats...
...fire. Winston Churchill said that 75,000 Axis troops had been put out of the fight. Cairo reported that ten Italian generals and some 30,000 other Axis captives had already reached the British Army's rear. Other thousands, not slain or wounded, still wandered in the desert. Rommel might have some 20,000 effectives left, plus a few Italian reserve divisions, a remnant of his original force, but still the nucleus of an army if it was permitted time and opportunity to reform...
...name is Herman Hastings Garner, president of the Vortox Manufacturing Co., inventor and by far the largest builder of a complex carburetor air cleaner, without the like of which tanks would bog down in the desert, their engine cylinders irreparably scored by sand and dust...