Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shores of Tripoli...
...movements was vital to such a plan. It was important that Cunningham get his forces around the Axis coast positions in time to cooperate with the southern forces that made the dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun, it was too late...
...British had counted on, it still appeared that the Axis powers had great problems in logistics. They could not supply their forward forces by sea. The British Navy last week said it had stopped 60% of all enemy supplies destined for all ports in Africa. Between the extreme rear (Tripoli) and the immediate rear (Bengasi) a British raiding force presumably still straddled the Axis supply roads. The only steady flow of Axis supplies came by plane and night. In the sector of supply the British had the advantage, and time might increase that advantage...
Naples, Brindisi and other southern Italian ports of embarkation for Africa had been mercilessly bombed. The Mediterranean Fleet had stopped about half of the supply ships headed for Tripoli and Bengasi. The R.A.F. had pasted docks and stocks in assembly ports behind the Axis lines in Libya...
...Your interest is different. You want the same as the worker in France, as the miner in Wales, the same as the Russian peasant and the stevedore in the port of Tripoli. You want peace, you want to live on your hands' work, and not at the cost of freedom and happiness of other peoples. You want to take part in determining your own fate, and you want to contribute your part in order that your children will find a better world than that you are leaving...