Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned in Libya. And he got the opposite picture (and also some welcome cool weather) high up among the snowy peaks near Fort Lewis in Washington, where the U.S. Army is training our mountain fighters...
With the current news from Libya and the Crimea, the star which the complacent West had begun to see over the Eastern front seems to be sputtering and growing dim. Of course this is not the first time since the Allied offensives in Africa and in Russia that temporary revivals of Nazi power have appeared. Nor is it the first time since 1939-or even the first time since the close of the Chamberlain administration-that the British have openly expressed a lack of confidence in the conduct of the war. But while Rommel had the English with their backs...
...delayed, with all punches pulled; that whenever Rommel was on the verge of defeat, he was suddenly let alone. The question was always, "I wonder where Rommel will strike next?" and never, "Where will we strike Rommel next?" But whether or not this was so, months of effort in Libya have been lost, as well as the opportunity to close the battle for Britain's life line...
...returns are trickling in—stories on U.S. aircraft in Russia, in the sandstorms of Libya, over the green hills of New Guinea, the crags of southern China. But the returns are incomplete and blindingly confused...
...Reports said the Bell P39 (Airacobra) had too fragile a landing gear for the rough fields of Russia; other reports from the Red Front had Airacobras fighting German planes to a standstill. The later P-40s (Kittyhawks) supposedly couldn't get high enough to fight Messerschmitts, but in Libya the Kittyhawk, with Spitfires, took control of the air and held...