Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--The Royal Air Force took over the offensive in Libya today, bombing and machine-gunning Axis troops and tanks in incessant relays in an effort to wear them down before the British Imperials launch the third round of their desert campiagn...
...Libya the British were putting on a desperate drive to get themselves set for the battle of 1942. Unless they could clear the Axis from North Africa, it would be very difficult to turn north in strength great enough to repulse a big German drive...
Naples, Brindisi and other southern Italian ports of embarkation for Africa had been mercilessly bombed. The Mediterranean Fleet had stopped about half of the supply ships headed for Tripoli and Bengasi. The R.A.F. had pasted docks and stocks in assembly ports behind the Axis lines in Libya...
...prospered from wartime grafts. Benito Mussolini lost additional face as Nazi officials took over key posts in vital ministries. Inflation increased. The tightened food-rationing system reeled along under the weight of flagrant violations. Military morale, ever feeble, ebbed to a new low as the British Army pushed into Libya...
...they are not to outfit U.S. divisions. They are to go to Adolf Hitler's fighting foes: Russia, China, Britain, which last week in Libya won its first victories with U.S. tanks...