Word: gallipoli
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Stern Sir Andrew, 59, a veteran of Gallipoli, had just finished winning World War II's epic naval Battle of the Mediterranean. Since 1939, first as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, finally as commander of the Allied Mediterranean fleet, he had hunted for the Italians, sought to turn mare nostrum into mare Britannicum. His quest had ended in September 1943, at Malta, where the Italian Fleet surrendered. Now, as the Battle of the Atlantic flared with new violence, Sir Andrew set another sight...
Admiral Cunningham first fought as a midshipman in the Boer War. In World War I he was at Gallipoli, and assisted in one of the great exploits of naval history, the bloody blocking of the Zeebrugge canal. Two other assignments in the Mediterranean, between World Wars I and II, taught him the capes and caprices of that...
...Some of these regiments fought at La Coruña, Alma, Khartoum, Lucknow, Ypres and the Marne. They were in the Crimean War. They embarked for the St. Lawrence, they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. They fought with France and the U.S., and against them...
Europe's Stomach Muscles. Churchill's favorite strategy is long standing and well known. Ever since the time of Gallipoli he has favored getting at the beast through his "soft underbelly." Actually that underbelly is not soft now. By last week it had become apparent that victory in Tunisia, which probably must precede any invasion of southern Europe, might be delayed long enough-perhaps into June-to let the underbelly become much harder...
...Edward Neville Syfret stood off the craggy north end of Madagascar. The landing force was under the command of a veteran of beachhead warfare: lean, aloof Major General Robert Grice Sturges of the Royal Marines, Officer in the "Jollies" since 1912, he had gone through the blistering hell of Gallipoli, had seen British Marines shot to pieces on Belgium's coast in World...