Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent Christmas Day in an abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...
...much-touted Italian Air Force. With its home bases and production much nearer Africa than were Britain's, this arm was admittedly overwhelmed by R. A. F. when the attack began. The Italian air fleet was bombed in its bases clear west to Castel Benito and Tripoli. In effect it never got off the ground, like the Polish Air Force in September...
...from slick new Hurricanes recently brought East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right to Tripoli. For hours the Italians could only guess what was happening. At the same time the British Fleet swung in to bombard Maktila, Sidi Barrani and the Italians' road to the rear. The Italians were attacked simultaneously from the right (land) flank by tanks, from the left (sea) flank...
...shores of Tripoli." The Marine Corps is essentially a soldier outfit, but it is part of the Navy. That fact explains both the length and the breadth of its service. Since 1775 the Corps has served from Sumatra (against pirates in 1832) to Ethiopia (1903); from the Falkland Is-the Dominican Republic and Haiti, "intervened" again & again in Nicaragua. In World War I Marines fired the first...
...French Armistice was four months old, and Adolf Hitler, seconded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, had decided to present M. Laval with German demands for the future: reportedly the use of French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, airfields at Beirut, Tripoli, major concessions in North Africa, perhaps territorial cessions from continental France to Germany, Italy, Spain. As persuasion he offered "a place in the New Order"-or else starvation. M. Laval took the best he could get, hurried back to Vichy...