Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--Victorious British Imperial forces rolling across Libya at the rate of 60 miles a day, probably have over-run Derna and are surging westward toward Benghazi, 300 miles from the Egyptian border, desert reports indicated tonight...
...Battle. Along the 40-mile front there had been no spectacular advance. Unlike previous desert campaigns when wide pendulum swings were measured in hundreds of miles, last week's gains were measured in yards. This was a different kind of desert warfare...
...required a greater complexity of operations. Tedder's men had to support the light vessels of Admiral Harwood, attack Axis warships in the Mediterranean, hunt submarines in the Persian Gulf. Tedder's men had to bomb cities and airdromes. Tedder's men had to fight over desert, where airdromes were mobile and maintenance was a special and involved problem. More than that, Tedder's men had to learn to subordinate their spectacular activities to the larger ideas of integrated strategy. This, the sagacious Tedder knew, had to be taught them or the battle was lost...
...lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black...
Arthur. In his private life, English-born Tedder kids his wife about her Australian ancestry, a long-standing ribbing which small, blonde Lady Tedder, after 26 years, bears resignedly. Tedder's one hobby is sketching. Sitting outside a tent in the Western Desert, flying from station to station, Tedder sketches...