Word: lum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth and seventh days came the first bad news. The main tank battle between Sâlum and Tobruk was gradually moving west. Evidently the Germans were making a supreme effort to break out toward Bengasi through a narrow bottleneck south of Tobruk-and evidently they were having at least partial success. If they escaped, the hardest British task would still be ahead. British losses were mounting hourly; the Germans claimed a ridiculously specific 662 British tanks. The Luftwaffe was appearing in greater strength. Things were getting tough. London spokesmen began to say ominously and vaguely that the fighting...
...Libyan naval base of Tobruch, where Graziani's main supplies were concentrated, the British claimed their bombers smashed barracks, wharves and massed trucks. British planes cracked at Sálum, others attacked Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers...