Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...El Wak fort and a post strongly held in front of it were being shelled throughout our advance and had already been taken when the colonel and C Company moved up. A Company is placed in reserve and we are told to march back to our transport, which is moving up along the road to meet us. We literally stagger along the road. One of my blokes falls, all he can say is, "Water! Water!" and then he passes out and is picked up by ambulance and is taken back. We reach the transport and collapse beneath the trucks which...
What a road home, like traveling over sand dunes, but we are on the way home. Arrive in camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...placid, sweeping arc of waterfront, civil servants gathered to talk, listen to radio reports, and read the Reuters ticker. In canteens back in the town, soldiers and sailors waited for orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
When Super-Nationalist Seyid Rashid El-Gailani this month took the Iraqi Premiership by coup d'état (TIME, April 21), Britain's great fear was that the new Government would let Axis fifth columnists tamper with the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, through which flows part of Britain's oil. If El-Gailani had had any such ideas, the British moved too fast for him. Into Basra harbor last week unexpectedly steamed a British transport and unloaded British Imperial troops, probably from East Africa...