Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. advance headquarters, which had previously been Luftwaffe headquarters, U.S. Army Air Forces General "Lighter-than-Air" Strickland took us over to the tiny blue-doored trailer in which Air Vice Marshal Coningham was directing all R.A.F. operations in the Western Desert. Although Rommel's retreat was orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand in the triangle near El Aghéila. General...
Last week the Diggers prodded the enemy backwards from Oivi to Gorari to Ilinow to Wairopi, only 40 miles from Buna. They also outflanked the Japs, prying them out with belly-ripping steel, then cutting off retreat. Probing northward, American patrols joined the Aussies at Wairopi, drew their first Jap blood...
...empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his retreat. Near by, the moonlight made a complicated and shadowy apparition out of a wrecked Mark III tank, glinted on a German chocolate tin and a bloodied German helmet...
...came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
...Salvation Army lost $1,600,000 worth of equipment during the 1940 retreat in France. General and Mrs. Carpenter, who were in France themselves at the time, several times got out of towns a jump ahead of the Nazis...