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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickname was "Strafer." Built like a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, he commanded the British 13th Corps in Libya. His full name and title: Lieut. General William Henry Ewart Gott, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. World War I veterans who remembered the Germans' Gott strafe England gave him the nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Gott Trapped | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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