Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Kasserine Pass, Major General Lloyd Fredendall's weary young U.S. infantrymen, artillerymen and tankmen had fled across the valley. They had lost their swagger. They had abandoned their dead and their good equipment along the muddy, bloody roads. They had been handicapped by a lack of motor vehicles. Some of them fought blindly in small, isolated groups. For all of them it had been a humiliating retreat. On their heels came the triumphant troops of the Axis, driving westward and northward in three columns. Foul weather held most of the Allied air forces ground-bound. There appeared...
...burning munition dumps. From Thelepte airport near Fériana, flames licked into the air as retreating troops fired 60,000 gallons of aviation gasoline. Three airports were abandoned. In the valleys of olive groves around Sbeïtla lay more than 100 wrecked U.S. tanks, numbers of jeeps, motor transports, huge quantities of ammunition. Toward the German rear lines filed long lines of weary Allied prisoners. Valiant Allied air support kept the retreat from turning into a rout...
...Alamein, trucks of General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell's service of supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...
...DIED A LADY-Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). The death pact of an erring English wife and her actor lover presents choleric Sir Henry Merrivale with an enigma that he solves (from a motor wheel chair) with his notably vociferous logic...
Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that...