Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well has U.S. military equipment done in the Battle of Libya, its first real test...
Strategically, the week's most important development in Libya was the spectacular British sweep by "mechanized patrols" across the base of the Libyan hump. The patrols could not have been very strong, but they were apparently strong enough to attack and destroy Axis land convoys, which were working along the road which was the only Axis supply line from the west...
This audacious sweep was the key to Britain's plan in Libya. Like every other British move of the battle so far, it had been conceived with a double-edged purpose : 1) to cut off Axis supplies; 2) to whittle down Axis force and supply by actual attack...
Above the snapping signal flags in the swirling tank battles in Libya hovered the ghostly tradition of Allenby, Jeb Stuart and all the great cavalrymen back to Genghis Khan. But in the clanking, barking tanks rode the spirits of the hard-eyed, dusty men of the U.S. Armored Force. For most of the tanks carrying the British regimental crests out into battle were U.S.-made...
Observers had reported that the air-cooled aircraft engines in U.S. tanks were less vulnerable than the liquid-cooled European engines. And they needed no stops for the water that in Libya is as precious as gold...