Word: tobruk
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...Cairo correspondents, studying British communiques, concluded that a British raid on Tobruk Sept. 13 was yet another indication that the British Army had not mastered the technique of invasion. As at Dieppe, losses were high and results were indefinite. And, as at Dieppe, the Germans at Tobruk had formidable defense forces ready to meet Allied attack...
...night last week cooed the snide voice of a Nazi announcer, straining to be funny. "A woman correspondent, Mary Allen," he said, "has fallen into Italo-German hands. . . . She was the only representative of the Anglo-American press to attend such an unladylike affair [the British commando raid on Tobruk]. . . . Some of the correspondents who took part in the Dieppe landing returned . . . well tutored. . . . This time they sent a woman to Tobruk. As you can see, it's hardly courteous, but very American...
...unpredictable Americans must have brightened the hard lot of Laurence Edmund ("Larry") Allen, if he heard it. The A.P.'s and the U.S.'s most embattled foreign correspondent was apparently a prisoner of war. He was aboard the British destroyer Sikh when she went down in Tobruk harbor, laying a smoke screen for the withdrawal. The U.P.'s George Palmer, only other U.S. correspondent accompanying the naval task force, escaped...
Last week the British harried the Axis flanks, gave Rommel's supply lines no surcease from bombing. Allied bombers raided Mediterranean shipping. Tobruk became known as the "milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...
...many the British had was their own secret. Over the tortuous Allied supply lines-by plane across Africa, by ship around Africa's tip-some men and equipment had reached them, but their losses at Tobruk had been great. Last week members of a U.S. ground crew established camp, raised the U.S. flag over a tiny sector of the desert. Medium bombers flown by U.S. pilots have been flying alongside British bombers for some weeks; harassing Axis supply lines. The British had superiority in the air before the fall of Tobruk. They probably still...