Word: tobruch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present time, free Poles the world over are active in the fight against Hitlerism," Professor Lednicki stated. "The garrison of Tobruch is Polish, as is R. A. F. squadron 303, the group of aces that has shot down the greatest number of Axis planes in the entire Allied air forces...
...early Spring, General Wavell's drive across Libya had taken the British advance units just beyond: 1. Derna. 2. Tripoli. 3. Tobruch. 4. Bengasi...
...Germans were very visibly moving a force to the Egyptian border. The R.A.F. caught a huge convoy of trucks, mostly large "tankers," as it crept up from the Axis base at Bengasi, and claimed to have destroyed 30. Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...
German dive bombers pounded Tobruch day after day-even on days when the sudden heat made tanks so hot that they blistered skin at the touch, and when the southerly wind blasted men and machines with grating dust. German spying was particularly daring. Several Nazis were found in Tobruch in British military-police uniform, and two spies were said to have visited Tobruch's Army and Navy and Air Force Institute (canteen) un spotted...