Word: misurata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Enrico Caviglia, World War I hero of Vittorio Veneto, a spokesman for such industrialists as Count Volpi di Misurata...
...shattered Afrika Korps, filled out with odds & ends of Italians, had been a secondary concern of the German High Command, whose primary objective was to hang on to Tunis and Bizerte and strike back in northwestern Africa. The fox had been left to find another temporary refuge, possibly at Misurata, 300 miles farther along the North African coast. After Misurata was Tripoli, itself a dubious refuge, target of methodical Allied bombing...
...first time, the R. A. F. revealed that not only were comparatively defenseless Junkers Stukas and Heinkel bombers being used by the Germans over Libya, but also some up-to-the-minute Messerschmitt fighters to cover them. In unconquered Libya there were still three important air bases-Homs, Misurata, Castel Benito (near Tripoli). But for the most part the Germans were operating out of Sicily...