Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...El Alamein, at Bengasi, at Tripoli, at the Mareth Line and finally at Bizerte and Tunis, the battle for the southern shore of the Mediterranean had been won by the Allies. Now it was time to fight for the islands of that sea and for its northern shores...
...MILDRED ELWELL El Paso...
...battalion commander, who had personally led the B Company attack, was a rugged and capable lieutenant colonel. He had lost a front tooth from a piece of .88 shrapnel at El Guettar. Now he decided it was better to die fighting. With two of his platoons he marched up the hill through the fire on that ridge and crossed over the ridge. Those two platoons and the colonel were not heard from again...
Montgomery had learned the lesson, too. His example was Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...
...Washington with his father, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, who lost one of his three sons (Peter, 26) at El Alamein last November, was British Army Lieut. Richard Wood, 22. He quietly recounted how the bomb that took both his legs failed to explode, left him his life. For nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow...