Word: tobruch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the African empire of Benito Mussolini. From the desert to the south another spearhead, fresh Anzac and Moslem Indian troops, poked north and west. Before mop-up units in Bardia had finished prying the last pockets of Italian Terribili from their wadi hideouts, the two points were encircling Tobruch...
...Tobruch looked to be an easier place to capture. Like Bardia, it was protected by a semicircle of forts, 16 clusters of six sunken casemates each, with another chain three to five miles outside the town within the outer ring. But Tobruch was thought to be undermanned and underequipped. Half the Italian artillery, ammunition and transports, one-third of the Italian Army was already in British hands. Moreover, Tobruch was known to be dependent on tankers from Dérna for its water supply. And Italian captives in Bardia were sure Tobruch could not hold out. Said one colonel...
...though the siege slowed the British, their advance guard had pushed on. The High Command claimed an armored car detachment had spent Christmas Day in an abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...
...only British troops the Italians ever captured," said the Australian skipper, they were on their way to Tobruch "for show pieces...
While the British struck on to Tobruch last week, trying to get there before Italy could bring up German help, the amazing Greeks moved northward through snow & cold toward Valona in a race against the Nazi aid promised Italy in Albania. Stukas were already in operation...