Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently the scales were being slowly tipped. Algeria-based bombers of Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force blasted Axis fields, crippling Axis fighter operations by bombing their nests. From Libya and from the island of Malta came other Allied bombers. Fighter bases were improvised in the rear of the rolling First Army, and from these, in swelling numbers, Spitfires rose to mix with swooping Axis dive-bombers...
...Florida real estate. At last he settled down to a mildly lucrative ice business in Oneonta, N.Y. When it looked unlikely that he would be drafted (he is 37, has a wife and two sons), Jimmy Stewart enlisted as a driver for the British American Ambulance Corps in Libya...
...Hitler cannot soon replace his losses in Egypt and Libya; he may not even try. Of 500 tanks on the Alamein front, Rommel had probably rescued fewer than 50. His casualties already exceeded 75,000 men and the whole Afrika Korps faced extinction...
...last week was fragmentary. Virtually all that General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters revealed was that Allied forces were moving steadily eastward from Algeria. The advance was four-pronged -one prong aimed at the Gulf of Gabes in order to cut any communication with Rommel's troops in Libya, the other prongs designed to make a scythelike sweep against Bizerte and Tunis. In a ring around Bizerte and Tunis the Axis forces...
...Emir of Trans-Jordania issued a public statement: "The Senusi (secret Moslem sect) are the rightful overlords of Libya by virtue of ancestral ties and religious leadership. We Arabs never forget the national war of the Senusi against Italy...