Word: perim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these very Italian forces in East Africa threatened to cut off the British who had cut them off. Except for the dangerous route the full length of the Mediterranean, the main supply line of the British forces at Port Said runs the length of the Red Sea after passing Perim at the head of the Gulf of Aden...
This immemorial gateway from the Orient to the Mediterranean has an inner and an outer gate. The inner gate is Port Said, which is the focus of British strategy throughout the region. The outer gate is the island of Perim at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. In World War I the British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about...