Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles southeast of Derna, fell Saturday and with it the last possible Axis defense line east of Benghazi, however, aerial reports that Axis ships were evacuating Benghazi harbor indicated that German Marshal Erwin Rommel will not halt his fleeing forces cast of the marshes around EI Agheila, 140 miles southwest of Benghazi...
Casablanca was squeezed between the landings around Rabat and others to the south, beyond the high, rocky coast immediately below the port. First and most important of these southerly attacks was at Safi, a port and airdrome center 140 miles southwest of Casablanca. Next day more troops landed well south of Safi, at Agadir and Mogodor...
Vichy's Navy was also an unknown quantity. Unhappily for Vichy, most of its Navy was at: 1) Dakar, 1,500 miles southwest of Casablanca; 2) Toulon, France's base 400 miles north of Algiers. The battleship Richelieu, three light cruisers, several destroyers and some submarines at Dakar did not figure in the initial defense. At Toulon were the battleships Strasbourg, Dunkerque (repaired after its shelling by the British in 1940) and Provence (also damaged but repaired), probably seven cruisers, 25 destroyers, 27 submarines and one seaplane carrier (the Commandant Teste). Axis reports said Toulon naval units...
Slight, scarred Lieut. General George C. Kenney, who took over the Southwest Pacific air command in August, had the answer: send them by air. George Kenney scraped together every transport plane he could find, including old, outmoded B18 bombers, early version of four-motored Liberators left over from Java, Lockheed and Douglas planes made in the U.S. for the Indies' K.N.I.L.M. airlines. George Kenney then flew thousands of soldiers to New Guinea. It was the first big airborne troop-transport job undertaken by the U.S. in a theater of operations...
Author Conrad Richter (The Trees') has already published one novel about the Southwest (The Sea of Grass). The setting of his brief new novel is Arizona in the early 1900s...