Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--Victorious British Imperial forces rolling across Libya at the rate of 60 miles a day, probably have over-run Derna and are surging westward toward Benghazi, 300 miles from the Egyptian border, desert reports indicated tonight...
With them in hand or enveloped, Dakar to the south of Casablanca could safely be left for later disposal, and the larger objectives of the U.S. entry into North Africa could unfold: first the joining of the U.S. forces in the northwest with the British in Libya, then the destruction of the Afrika Korps, the re-establishment of Allied mastery over the southern Mediterranean and finally assault on southern Europe...
Tunisia, marked by obvious strategy for U.S. penetration toward Libya, was now at the eastern end of French rail and highway lines already dominated by U.S. forces. Its commander, General Barre, gathered what forces he had in the interior and said: "We will be attacked and we will defend ourselves." More serious battles in Tunisia were likely to be between Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's U.S. planes and Axis aircraft from Sicily, a scant 140 miles away. This week when a bomber bearing General Doolittle was attacked, he took over the controls from his wounded co-pilot and continued...
...Land. Meanwhile Australian troops, battle-toughened in Libya and the Middle East, were rushed to New Guinea and hastened up the trail to stop the Japs. Over the jungle and mountain trail that leads out of Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village...
...fighting in Finland all the way from 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle to the great battles on the ice at Lake Ladoga 600 miles to the south. He was bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more...