Word: eritrea
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...then overland by highway and railway, through renamed Persia to Soviet ports and railheads on the Caspian Sea, the U.S. was sending war goods to Stalin's Armies. Aircraft assembled at the Gulf delivery points were flown directly to Russia. And, as it had already done in Eritrea, the U.S. Army was providing supply bases for future U.S. forces in the Middle and Near East...
...When an A.P. dispatch from Egypt, undoubtedly passed by the British censors, reported the establishment of a U.S. "arsenal" in Eritrea, the War Department belatedly described this as "essential military information" and asked newspapers to refrain from publishing it. This attempt to conceal information that was already public knowledge abroad-a good example of confusing the U.S. people with the enemy-was frustrated by the fact that U.S. papers had already published...
Vichy announced: The British and Free French are invading Vichy Somaliland; they have sent two columns from Eritrea toward the strategic port of Djibouti...
...Governor of Somaliland: After advancing on the town of Tadjoura, the columns are rapidly retreating toward Eritrea...
...plumb wore out. He had run the Italians out of Libya and East Africa, had had his men run out of Greece and Crete, had sent some mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters in Palestine; spend...