Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Adolf Hitler last Oct. 1. By his measure of German gain & loss, the Allies last week still had to inflict a definitive defeat upon the Axis. Rommel was fleeing through Libya and the Allies were at his back in Tunisia, but the Germans were still in North Africa, astride the Mediterranean. The Russians were attacking on ever-widening fronts, but the Germans were still entrenched on those fronts. From Rzhev to Casablanca the Allies had greatly improved their positions, but they still had to translate these positions into victory...
...Allies had gone into French Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with none too many men for the job, and they now have a major struggle to win. The distances are great: to effect a junction of General Montgomery's Army in Libya (based on Alexandria) and General Eisenhower's British and U.S. forces (whose Atlantic base is Casablanca) was like trying to bring together armies from opposite shores of the U.S. (see map), with nothing like the excellent highway and communications facilities of the U.S. Franco's threat was one more strain on Allied manpower and communications...
...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
...African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
...Germans and Rumanians was all but bottled up in Stalingrad and on the Stalingrad steppes. The encirclement, capture or destruction of this army, along with the loss of the Germans' pivotal position in southern Russia, would be for Hitler a catastrophe greater than the disaster in Libya...