Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While heavy artillery went up, the R. A. F. started off with an attack on Tobruch, roared westward as far as Tripoli, hunting out Italian troop concentrations and airdromes. Off the harbor the British Fleet stood by. Advance land forces pushed on past Tobruch to cut off the Italian retreat, some of them reaching Bómba, 60 miles to the west...
While the fleet moved off to help the R. A. F, block the Italian line of retreat to Tobruch, the Australians started pushing again, this time from the north. That afternoon 15,000 of the Italians were in British hands, the rest "confined to a restricted area." The Rome radio warned the Italian people that Bardia was about to fall. The Italians no longer stood by their positions. Three thousand were taken out of one cave. Neither side's casualties were heavy...
Gossipist Walter Winchell reported last week: "Mussolini's soldiers hope to retreat to Rome where they can be protected by the Vatican's Swiss Guards." Swiss Guards carry halberds. By an order of the peace-minded Supreme Pontiff last week the effective modern rifles of His Holiness' fur-helmeted Palatine Guards were replaced by 1840 muzzle-loaders which have been stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires...
Battered Axis forces continued to retreat Thursday in Russia and Libya before strong Soviet and British offenslves...
...emphasizes (in contrast to Russia's Mannerheim Line) the martial superiority of Teutons over Slavs, the picture shows the German Army's crushing, rhythmic power; patience and proficiency in arms; perfect planning and instant, athletic response to commands. In this picture is the other side of the retreat to Dunkirk; the blasting of Tournai; the whining accuracy of the Stukas (divers); the plod and dash-as occasion required-of German soldiers afoot or on horses drawing cannon, of German soldiers looking like men from horrid Mars in grimy, indestructible machines of all types. Some 23 Army cameramen were...