Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack began with a tentative push against El Hemeimat, 25 miles south of El Alamein. Early this week it was not clear what Rommel intended or where the main force of his drive would center...
...British in Egypt have been reinforced. Whether they have received enough from Britain and the U.S. for an effective offensive, no one outside the high command knows. The R.A.F. had clear superiority in the air when the front was stabilized at El Alamein; it now has considerable help from the U.S. Army Air Forces: U.S. medium bombers last week joined the heavy bombers and fighters already in action in Egypt. Correspondents, summing up the total of U.S. aid, were allowed to say only that it was not yet a flood, but that it was more than the trickle...
Stab in the Back. It was at El Alamein that the Germans and the British actually faced each other; it was beyond El Alamein that the richest and most immediate rewards of conquest-Cairo, Suez-beckoned to Rommel. But the tense situation on that front invited action elsewhere...
...twice decorated (D.S.O., M.C.)In the British Army his known talent for aggression still outweighs his World War II record as the leader of two "brilliant retreats," from Dunkirk and Burma. Now in Egypt, he commands forces which cannot retreat again without losing all that they defend. At El Alamein his back is to the wall in a theater where three soldiers with greater reputations- Wavell, Cunningham, Auchinleck-failed to beat Rommel...
With General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lieut. General Sir Allan Moreshead, Australian Commander, Churchill saw the white of El Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...