Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Smashing Allied air blows from Crete to Tunisia, involving the destruction or crippling of 51 enemy planes, and generally improved Allied positions in both Libya and Tunisia pointed tonight to an early opening of the decisive battles for North Africa...
...heavy bombers of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Ninth Air Force, based somewhere in Libya, flew to Sfax and Sousse. It was days before a momentarily confused enemy, with his alarm nets spread to the north and west, realized whence came these new onslaughts (see p. 26). Malta-based bombers also helped. At week's end dispatches reported La Goulette, port of Tunis, knocked out, Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse rapidly being rendered unusable...
Conversazione Piece-The low-slung, square-built bubbling Bishop of Bengasi, back to Libya from Italy just in time to give a sunny greeting all over again to his habitually returning guests, the British Navy...
...Chicago Sun's solemn little Chester Morrison last week had recovered sufficiently from a minor accident in Libya to broadcast this philosophic item over...
...Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled pacifism." His own unprincipled imperialism was given its epitaph by Sagittarius' second verse of parody...