Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first group of U.S. soldiers to see action against the German army returned to home base at Fort Knox last week. Bronzed, full of quiet, unique pride, behaving like veterans, they had fought for a month with the British in Libya, got out of Tobruk just two days before Field Marshal Erwin Rommel arrived...
They had volunteered for an unspecified mission. In Libya, most were homesick the first week. But they forgot their homesickness in the rush of battle. Their score: nine German tanks disabled or destroyed; three out of three American M35 still intact. How did they feel under fire? "Well, sir," said one of the new veterans, "you don't have time to feel physically afraid." They had no casualties in battle, but one broken ankle on the trip home...
...time being, but it was no stalemate. Both sides were bringing up reinforcements and the forces accumulating were growing too big for any equilibrium in the narrow position they fought for. Something had to give. If Rommel gave, he might have to run all the way back to Libya to prepare another assault. But if Britain's General Auchinleck gave, it would be downhill for Rommel to Alexandria. The shadow still hung heavy over the Middle East...
Thus wrote precise old (73) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to handsome young (40) Major Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator from Massachusetts, just returned from Libya, where he observed* the first U.S. armed forces that made actual contact with the Germans on land. Long (18 years) a reserve officer, energetic Henry Cabot Lodge has a peacetime history of preparedness. Under a directive issued by the President, Major Lodge-and all other legislators in the armed forces-had to resign either from active duty or from their Congressional posts. Last week Senator Lodge, up for reelection, made the Secretary...
...Airlines v. Air Freight. While his future enemies were debating how many angels with 60-lb. field packs could stand on the point of a pin, Hitler accumulated transports for Norway, Crete and Libya. Sixteen percent of the Luftwaffe consisted of transports...