Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Russia came Graebner himself, homeward bound to report what he learned during his five months with the Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them and sharing their bully beef and the dusty taste of victory. In contrast, he flew back to Cairo in six hours in a British bomber whose crew fed him chicken and ham pie and fresh fruit...
Although disappointed in finding that all the air ambulances which he had planned to observe had been shot down by the Nazis, McFarlane reports that he was particularly impressed with the effectiveness of the RAF medical work in the western desert...
...front 600 of the 1000 men treated in one of these bases during one month, he said, adding that the cause of many injuries was the heavy traffic necessary on the supply lines during dust storms. "These storms are a more serious problem than the heat of the desert," he said...
Morize, himself, was optimistic about these operations, even though he realized that the terrain in the battle-grounds of Tunisia is disadvantageous to offensive warfare because of its natural fortifications of desert rock...
Shipwrecked on Hollywood's fixed idea of the North African desert, still unchanged since the days of Rudolph Valentino and E. M. Hull, Hope and Crosby ad-lib their way to a native village ruled over by Princess Lamour who retains the pleasant knack of looking undressed even when fully clothed. Already betrothed to a native sheik (Anthony Quinn), Lamour gives her affections first to Hope, then to Crosby. Tribesman Quinn's desire for revenge touches off the Keystone excitement. Chief difference between Road to Morocco and its predecessors is that Hope also gets a girl...