Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American, British, Canadian and South African airmen in Fortresses, Liberators, Wellingtons, Marauders, Mustangs, Spitfires and Warhawks created that impression. From North Africa, from Pantelleria, from Malta, Egypt and Libya, they flew over Sicily and Mother Italy, revealing to the enemy and to the world a perfected pattern of the new warfare...
...Targets. The system was developed in the African desert, and perfected in Libya and Tunisia, by the men who now directed its first use against Axis Europe...
Malta and the Middle East Air Command in Egypt and Libya sent bombers against southern Italy and over Sicily's eastern coast, where the Siculi, the Phoenicians and the Greeks began the island's long cycle of invasion. American Fortresses, medium bombers, fighter-bombers and night-flying British Wellingtons attacked from Tunisia (but not as heavily as some U.S. headlines screamed). Compared with the climactic air offensive on Pantelleria, the week, in fact, was one of lull and preparation...
...Army Air Forces evacuated thousands of British soldiers in Libya, but had no special organization for the purpose...
Lucile Turner was last week on tour in Washington, D.C., "makin' glory" for Lord Halifax at the British Embassy, giving his son, legless Lieut. Richard Wood, the best time he had had since an unexploded Nazi bomb smashed him in Libya. Recent concert dates had taken her to many U.S. Army camps, to Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Brooklyn's Academy of Music, Manhattan's Town Hall...