Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: of all the world battlefronts where U.S. supplies are now needed, the four hottest -Russia, Burma, the East Indies, Libya -are 6,000-10,000 miles* from U.S. shores. These are the longest communications lines in military history...
...brilliant Nazi tank Gen. Rommel was hit by a Britishiblitz which drove him halfway across Libya.--The Boston Herald, February...
...replace General Rommel in Libya...
...November the British started their long-heralded drive into Libya and by year...
...neutrality was wearing too thin to hide much. In London, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton gave figures showing that Vichy's collaboration with Germany had been military, as well as economic and political. He said that in two months Vichy had sent the German forces in Libya cars, lorries, 5,500 tons of motor fuel...