Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force rose from his bench in the House of Commons, some members did not recognize him. The honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
...Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
Germans of the veteran Hermann Goring Division (Libya, Tunisia, Sicily) surrendered Cervaro only after hours of artillery, machine-gun, grenade fire. Then they counterattacked with eight companies, tanks, self-propelled guns. Repulsed at last, they left a few prisoners-arrogant, undaunted teen-age Nazis. Said Private Donald Gunther, prodding two of them with a bayonet: "You're just a couple of Krauts...
Lieut. Richard ("Dick") Carver, General Bernard Montgomery's stepson, captured in Libya, had escaped from a German prison camp and held a new job as "Monty's" aide-de-camp...
Look and see what is taking place at the fronts. The defeats of the last seven months are unparalleled in the history of Germany-Stalingrad, the Don, the Caucasus, Libya and Tunisia...