Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squadron had been encamped for several days in the cold, inhospitable desert, irritable and impatient as only bomber pilots can be when bad weather holds them from their target. Then the message came from headquarters: "Bomb the quays and shipping at Sousse...
...Four R.A.F. aircraftsmen (ground crewmen) tugged and shoved at a Spitfire bogged in the sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip...
...devices for killing men which have been elaborated upon in World War II, none is more insidious than the land mine. British troops pursuing Rommel were delayed last week while their sappers (engineers) fished in the earth to remove land mines buried beneath the African desert. Moscow reported that several Russian tanks had hit mines buried deep in the snow, but that the way had been cleared by mortar fire...
...first time Rome radio admitted the retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying...
...Desert Training Command in California (where Major General George S. Patton trained his tankers before taking them to Africa), headed by Major General Fred L. Walker...