Word: sidra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis sent convoys heavily reinforcing Field Marshal Rommel's Panzers in northern Africa. There was a palpable suggestion that, despite the desert's dust and heat, Rommel would strike soon from his bases where the great headland swings out to the sea on the Gulf of Sidra. The suggestion was not lost on the British. Their pilots bombed the German base at Bengasi daily; ranging through the desert storms over the German positions, they fought daily dogfights over waterless wastes...
...second time in a year that Field Marshal Rommel had captured Bengasi, and there was nothing second class about his performance. The sweeping Axis counterattack, which ten days before the British had hopefully called an "armored force reconnaissance," had swept around the base of the Gulf of Sidra, gathering momentum as it went...
From el-Aghéila on the Gulf of Sidra, 360 miles by road from the Egyptian border, granite-jawed General Erwin Rommel turned on the harrying British desert fighters and lashed fiercely with an armored paw. The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot...