Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palestine, Egypt, Tripoli. Last July, when Rommel was knocking at the Alexandria gate, the Bastards were sent to Palestine to help. They could take only twenty of their ground crew with them, never got any more. They bombed Bengasi, Crete, Tripoli, the Dodecanese Islands and Axis convoys in the Mediterranean. In November they moved to Egypt, helped the Eighth Army's offensive by blowing up Rommel's oil dumps and two tankers at Tobruk. Thereafter Rommel's supply of oil came only by air transport. The 513th hit Tobruk ("the milk run") nearly every morning. Their biggest...
...attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...
...finest film of actual combat that has come out of this war. It was made as a routine British War Office assignment; it covers Montgomery's brilliant African campaign, last autumn and winter, which opened at El Alamein and ended 1,300 miles to the west in Tripoli. It is a good record of this action ; it is so good a record because it is a great deal more. The task might have fallen to any competent film director. But because it came to intelligent, diffident, Hollywood-trained Scotsman David MacDonald, a British Army lieutenant colonel, the result...
...attack in the eastern Mediterranean, move material from Alexandria to Bengasi. At Bengasi supplies are picked up and transported by a fast fleet of more than 100,000 motor lorries,* which move some 2,400 tons a day along a 600-mile ribbon of road across Libya to Tripoli. To keep the lorries running is in itself a major problem. Every day 2,000 tires must be replaced...
...fast as they can the British are clearing the wrecks out of Tripoli's harbor, and rebuilding docks destroyed by Allied bombers and Axis sabotage. When Tripoli is in full operation as a port, the overtaxed highway will be relieved by Mediterranean convoys from Alexandria, and the stream of supply will become a river. The first sign that this has been accomplished will come when the Eighth Army attacks in force...