Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mounted on a self-propelled M-7 motor carriage, this piece became famous in Egypt as "the Priest," the antitank weapon with the pulpitlike machine-gun mount which broke Rommel's desert line. Another, a modified 105-mm. with a shorter muzzle and mounted on the same carriage as the 75-mm., is used by airborne artillery and infantry heavy weapons units...
Mounted on a self-propelled M-7 motor carriage, this piece became famous in Egypt as "the Priest," the antitank weapon with the pulpitlike machine-gun mount which broke Rommel's desert line. Another, a modified 105-mm. with a shorter muzzle and mounted on the same carriage as the 75-mm., is used by airborne artillery and infantry heavy weapons units...
This is Jack Belden, veteran of the war in China, of Stilwell's retreat from Burma and Montgomery's desert victory, of the Mareth Line, of Sicily and of Salerno, where he was so badly wounded during the first landings that he spent months in a hospital. It was only last week, still limping, he was able to get off to the wars again...
Eighth Army News, the testy, griping pal -in-print of the "desert rats" who followed Monty from Egypt to Italy, was born in September 1941, during the siege of Tobruk. When General Montgomery arrived in Egypt to take over the Eighth he quickly recognized the battle weariness of his men, found it "important that the troops know what is going on in the world and have a place to air their problems...
...only one censorship order: that there be no criticism of U.S. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. in the soldier-slapping incident: Even the News's protector has not escaped its editor's barbs. Captain Charlton wrote Monty's first Order of the Day in the desert. Thereafter the General wrote his own, but Charlton edited some of them. Said the Captain of the General: "He kept using the same old trite phrases...