Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raided Rhodes. At week's end they followed up with bomber attacks on Crete and the German submarine base at Eleusis near Athens. At the same time the British launched land and air attacks along the western route to Egypt. They shelled the Martüla airdrome in Libya while over the bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, who directed the devastation of Warsaw and Coventry, was now in Sicily hinted ominously...
...week began, British submarines claimed to have sunk eleven Axis ships attempting to by-pass Malta with reinforcements for Libya. The Italian Navy claimed that a major sea battle was raging, with a Malta-bound convoy as the prize...
...Free French at Lake Chad were spoiling for action. Some 1,200 miles to the north, in Libya's Fezzan Desert, the Italians were sitting in fortified strongholds. Over that long trail of rocks and sand the Free French moved to attack. The sun was broiling hot. Sometimes their trucks got stuck in the sand a dozen times in a hundred yards. Cattle driven ahead for fresh meat fell lame, had to be slaughtered...
Lieut. David F. H. McCormick, 27-year-old member of the harvester clan, was reported a prisoner in Italy. He had fought with the British in Libya...
Germany has closed the Mediterranean to regular convoys, is driving at the Suez terminus through Libya. Its spring threats of action in the Caucasus and through Turkey are also threats to the Indian Ocean and its seaways. The Japanese have narrowed the Axis pincers from the east. If the Axis finally shuts the pincers and controls the Indian Ocean, China's hopes of supplies through Russia and isolated India will vanish; the only remaining feasible routes from the U.S. to the Middle and Near East will be lost. Russia would have to fall back on uncertain, insufficient Arctic routes...