Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south of the Mareth Line, British and Fighting French units had made a wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...
...Kent, O. B. Jr. '45, Eliot G-31 ELI 2552 Kleiman, R. L. '46, Eliot F-23 KIR 1371 Kresberg, H. '44, Winthrop G-25 KIR 9754 Kuhu, R. S. '46, Lowell F-32 KIR 3935 L Lamere, R. K. '46, Eliot H-51 KIR 4576 Landin, El. '45, Lowell F-33 KIR 3985 Landry, S. O. Jr. '46, Lowell E-13 TRO 9087 Lauriat, N. P. '43, Andover 14 ELI 9058 Lawrence, S. C., Jr., Winthrop J-32 KIR 8773 Lazarus, I. J. '45, Adams H-31 KIR 1345 Leonard, E. '46, Lowell F-31 KIR 3985 Levin...
...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
...Plot. The tactics which the plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz have worked out are probably based on Tedder's tactics in the Egyptian campaign...
Early last December he was sent to North Africa. There he learned, last week, that he had been made a lieutenant general. Spaatz has few relaxations: squash, fishing, poker, which he plays with a sometimes wild abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home...