Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oran and Mers-el-Kebir, the nearby naval base where the British attacked parts of the French Fleet in 1940, were also flanked. The main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift...
...different at Mers-el-Kebir and in Oran's own harbor, where Darlan's Navy had only a few small ships, but manned the coastal guns around the naval base, the docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
...winner at El Alamein would be, in all probability, the victor of North Africa, for victory could be won only with the destruction of the loser's main forces. Rather than lose his hope of destroying the Axis forces, Montgomery was undoubtedly prepared to draw back if the Rommel line was too strong. In that event there would be no victor; there would be another stalemate. On the third day of assault the British had neither drawn back nor advanced very far. Nor had General Montgomery seen fit to amend his order of the first day: "Destroy Rommel...
...Laredo Times sells no more than 11,000 copies, but 3,500 of them go across the border into Mexico. Only one other Border paper (El Paso's Herald-Post) is printed partly in Spanish. Allen became the darling of Mexico when it expropriated U.S. oil holdings. He took Mexico's side-a move which very nearly got him ostracized by furious Texas oilmen...
...Sweet Sure-Fire. At the University of California, Assistant Music Professor Frances A. Wright examined 2,000 Latin American folk songs, discovered that every one of them sang of 1) el amor, 2) la luna...