Word: duda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task," explained General Leslie James ("Holy Terror'') Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, "is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to cut at El Duda. There we should meet the South Africans...
Between the two groups there were seven miles of Axis-held terrain. It took the British, with their Imperial, Polish and Czech allies, five days to drive the enemy from the intervening territory. On the fifth day a British Tommy and a New Zealand infantryman clasped hands at El Duda...