Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
LONDON--British tanks were reported only 30 miles from Tripoli today and still advancing swiftly toward the last big Axis base in Libya which Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was believed preparing to abandon without a fight...
...moved up in a vast and orderly flow, steadily preparing for General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's next move against Marshal Rommel. U.S. bombers and fighters from Tunisia, approximately 575 miles northwest of the Eighth Army, joined the R.A.F. from Libya in a fierce attack on Tripoli. The Berlin radio interpreted the signs to mean an imminent renewal of the British assault and pursuit in Libya...
...Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south of Tripoli. They still had 350 miles to go before they could reach the battered but unshattered Afrika Korps...
LONDON--Britain's Eighth Army rolled triumphantly toward Tripoli and a merger of the African fronts tonight while the Axis-held Sicilian Narrows area rocked under widespread new Allied air blows featuring 24 hours of uninterrupted raids by planes based on Malts...