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Word: tobruk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles and made great advances just as Rommel did-by forced marches and surprise attacks when, according to the rules, their armies should have been resting for the next round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lessons from Defeat | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...airdromes and supply lines in Rommel's immediate rear. British pilots, many of them in U.S. planes, raised hob with such targets. But that was not enough. At the pinch Rommel still had enough tanks, guns and supplies. And he had the dive-bombers to crack Bir Hacheim, Tobruk and Matr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lessons from Defeat | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...reached Australia to take over a united command amid the plaudits of a hero-hungry people. Australian spirits rebounded from the Singapore slump to a crest of clamor for men & tools to launch a gigantic offensive northward against the Japanese. Not till the staggering news of the fall of Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded on the war's back stoop without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AUSTRALIA: Secondary Front | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...election seemed to prove that the British public was wrathier after Tobruk than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The War and Winston Churchill | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...even Winston Churchill's keenest critics suspected that in his great Parliamentary scene he would come off little, if any, worse than before. Doubtless he would try to draw the maximum attention away from Tobruk with handsome paragraphs about his conversations with President Roosevelt, a Second Front, other future possibilities. But there were more realistic reasons why Parliament's candle of criticism was likely to sputter and die before the Prime Minister's breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The War and Winston Churchill | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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