Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strafer understood desert warfare. He was one of Auchinleck's pillars. Strafer almost understood the desert. Once he observed in his deceptively soft voice: "To him who knows it, the desert can be a fortress; to him who does not, it can be a deathtrap." From London last week came a report that enemy planes had attacked his plane, shot him down. In the skies over the desert the trap had closed on Strafer Gott...
...much they accomplished in nine months of labor is a military secret. But wrecked machine shops are in operation once more. Supplies to reinforce Auchinleck's army in Egypt are flowing through rebuilt quays and warehouses. Mechanized equipment, shot up and damaged in the desert war, are repaired there. The U.S. Army's Major General Russell Maxwell, closemouthed commander of the base which has become one of the most vital in a far-flung chain of United Nations supply depots, admits that the base at Massaua, little-publicized service entrance to Egypt and the Middle East...
...just as effective as servering it at Stalingrad. Between the German forces bulging east from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down to the salty Caspian: hard-baked land, offering scant obstacles...
...faced British colonel shifted his weight, stoically posed for his photograph. The man taking his picture was that cameraphile, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. With some Indian troops in his command, the colonel had been seized during the confused fighting in the desert. His captors had hauled him in to exhibit him to the victorious Field Marshal of the Afrika Korps...
Some 70 of his men got away that evening, picked up the colonel, seized several lorries and chugged away in the darkness. Twice the next day, on their dash along the desert road, they overtook German brigades. Each time they blew their horns, waved their arms wildly. The well-disciplined Germans moved briskly aside to let them through. Last week the sad-faced British colonel was behind his own lines again...