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Major Salmeri is a graduate of the New York University College of Medicine. Commissioned on July 15, 1941 he was ordered to North Africa in April, 1942, where he was assigned to the Engineering Department of the Eritrea Service Command, serving as District Surgeon and later as Surgeon...
This was the second African stronghold one of our TIME & LIFE News Bureau men stumbled into ahead of the Army. Two years ago (eight months before Pearl Harbor) George Rodger strolled out the causeway to Massaua, the last seaport held by the Italians in Eritrea, was escorted to the Italian general's headquarters, found to his amazement that the Italians were still looking for someone to surrender to. He had dinner that night with the Italian commander, was on the friendliest of terms with the vanquished before the surrender ceremonies next...
...names were like a dirge to the war-weary Italians. First it was Eritrea, then Somaliland, then Ethiopia and Cyrenaica. Last week the one Italian venture into empire that was worthy of the name was gone, too. Ancient Tripolitania, gleaming with modern roads, watered by giant aqueducts, colonized with thousands of eager peasants, had fallen to the Allies (see p. 26). Italians had only the sands blown across the Mediterranean by the sirocco to remind them of the 1,239,112 sq. mi. of African empire they had owned...
...January he left again for Africa, via Atlantic Clipper this time. In Cairo he started planning big U.S. engineering projects. He went to Eritrea to supervise some of these projects, working in temperatures as high as 120°. After six months Lou Claterbos' health cracked and he was ordered back to the U.S. "Go by boat," said the doctor. "Planes are too exciting and you do not get any rest...
...single battle is being fought: the battle to keep Africa open as the supply crossroads of the United Nations. Rommel's dusty warriors menaced the land bridge between Africa and the Middle East. Vichy intrigue and Japanese submarines at Madagascar menaced the waterway up the African coast toward Eritrea, Suez. Persia and Russia...