Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the coastal range. It is a picture which would make, and doubtless has made, Admiral Yamamoto's eyes glitter with anticipation: "Not months, but years, must elapse before armies equal to the Japanese are able to pass in parade. These must then make their way over deserts such as no armies have ever heretofore crossed; scale the intrenched and stupendous heights that form the redoubts of the desert moats; attempting, in the valor of their ignorance, the militarily impossible; turning mountain gorges into the ossuaries of their dead, and burdening the desert winds with the spirits...
...German Army's retreat as far as el-Gazála was orderly enough. Beaten back rather than completely outmaneuvered, Rommel had left el-Gazála to hold el-Mechili-el-Tmimi road in defense of Dérna. In one of the biggest battles of the Desert campaign, the British cut this road and started their advance. This was apparently the beginning...
...Office had apparently fumbled commanders again. In the fusty voice of an "official spokesman." London announced last week that Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, Commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...
Timing of the various column movements was vital to such a plan. It was important that Cunningham get his forces around the Axis coast positions in time to cooperate with the southern forces that made the dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun...
...stand and fight. For a few days they seemed to be doing a little better than holding their own. But after pausing for repairs and reinforcements, the British resumed the attack, claimed they were forcing the Germans out of the Sidi Rézegh area deeper into the desert...