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...Axis' problem was simple compared to the Allies' (see map). Axis ships from Italy ran the Royal Navy's gantlet by night and air transports few back & forth from Sicily over a shuttle that took little more than an hour's flying time. German and Italian troops have arrived since Dec. 1 at the estimated rate of 2,400 a day, with tiptop equipment and plenty...
Supplies for the Eighth Army on the southern front have to be shipped from Britain, the U.S. and Canada around the tip of South Africa, through the Red Sea and Suez to Alexandria (see map). A desert railroad and coastal shipping, now almost free of Axis air attack in the eastern Mediterranean, move material from Alexandria to Bengasi. At Bengasi supplies are picked up and transported by a fast fleet of more than 100,000 motor lorries,* which move some 2,400 tons a day along a 600-mile ribbon of road across Libya to Tripoli. To keep the lorries...
...strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...
Opening with a greeting from George H. Chase '96, Dean of the University, the pamphlet offers a short course in the history of Harvard and its buildings, follows with a list of services, a guide-book section with a map, and ends in a thumbnail sketch of the various military groups contained in the University...
Death In the Groves. A canopy of screeching Stukas shook U.S. soldiers, experiencing dive-bombing for the first time. Thirty German tanks poured out of Faïd Pass. Artillery, infantry and 50 German tanks moved out of a point north of the pass (see map). South around Maknassy the Germans rolled toward the road that connects Sidi bou Zid with Gafsa. Another column pounded toward Gafsa itself. Mark IVs and some of the new, giant Mark VIs overran the positions of green. U.S. artillerymen, who sometimes scarcely had time to fire one round...