Word: tripolis
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...bombings probably covered a concerted German effort to get reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
...grateful people, speaking through their President, officially cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...
...forces and infantry units have broken the Axis line west of el-Gazála and have sent the Germans reeling backward in headlong retreat." Other reports also had General Erwin Rommel's Army "reeling backward." BBC claimed this week that Rommel was abandoning Bengasi and retreating towards Tripoli...
...beyond Bengasi were caught on the Barca Plateau. This was the area the Axis had hoped to defend to block the advancing British. They apparently stumbled over it in retreat, for this week Rommel's armored units and the Italian infantry appeared to be sprawled from Cyrene toward Tripoli...
This stage of the kriegspiel was the tactical moment for the British southern units in Giálo to move northwestward to cut off the Axis retreat into Tripoli. This maneuver, if successful, would give Britain's new Lieut. General Neil Methuen