Word: scipio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly 339 days after the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, U.S. and German land troops met in battle for the first time in World War II. The place was the oak groves and citrus valleys of Tunisia, once the breadbasket of Carthage, where Scipio in the Battle of Zama finally destroyed Carthage's power...
...Goebbels ordered the Boersen-Zeitung to print the suggestion that the hero of Tobruk, after the fashion of ancient Rome's great Scipio, be dubbed "Rommel Africanus." Since the eleventh edition of Rommel's Infantry Attacks had all but disappeared from German bookshops, Dr. Goebbels commanded that Germany's paper-saving regulations be relaxed to permit a twelfth edition. Goebbels' biggest scoop was a German soldier-correspondent's interview with Rommel six hours after he had entered Tobruk. As if to answer Italian newspapers, which had crowed that the victory belonged to "Italian and German...