Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably been sunk. Royal Navy submarines sank the majority of them. Allied fighters have harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither closed the ports nor cut the coastal railways and air and sea lanes; it has only made Axis supply...
Tunisia. "I do not wish to encourage the House or the country to look for speedy new results," Mr. Churchill warned. "They may come or may not come." The harbor of Tripoli must be cleaned up so that it can be used as a supply base for the Eighth Army, of which Mr. Churchill said: "I have never seen troops march with the style and air of this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there...
Churchill had already called on Egypt's King Farouk and Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in Cairo. In Tripoli, on his way home, he clasped the victorious hand of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery...
Advance British patrols crossed the Tunisian border last week. Behind them the main force of the victorious British Eighth Army swept boisterously through Tripoli, pounded on over arid, rocky desert land on the heels of Rommel's retreating troops. But General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was ahead of his supplies, and he may have to pause until Tripoli is put in shape to serve him as a base...
...unravel, especially with Montgomery's old enemy in the middle of it. Rommel remains a wily tactician. It may be a knot that will tie the Allies up so long that operations against southern Europe will be impossible this summer. Last week in the midst of his Tripoli drive Montgomery flew to Casablanca to confer on that subject...