Word: wadi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had stopped him cold and he had backed up, leaving the plain strewn with British dead around the hell of the Wadi Zigzau (see p. 17). It appeared that Montgomery had been stalled. It only appeared...
...afternoon of March 22 the Germans counterattacked the Eighth Army's positions in the Mareth Line and drove the British infantry back upon the Wadi Zigzau. In order to relieve the situation of this infantry, the British command that evening ordered troops across the wadi to counterattack the German counter-attackers. TIME Correspondent Jack Belden accompanied the troops and cabled this soldier's-eye view...
...Empire. The last days of his march across Tripolitania had been climactic. Eight days before, 200 miles from his goal, he had arrayed himself before Rommel's thin crust of defense at Wadi Zemzem...
...snapped the British thumbs-up. He reorganized at El Aghéila, where German engineers had sown the dead with booby traps. He was off again, rolling under the Marble Arch on which was inscribed: "O beneficent sun, thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome." At Wadi el Chebir wild camels and gazelles pranced across the dreary ditch-scarred land. At Wadi Zemzem the pilgrim drew himself...
...Wadi to Wadi. As for Rommel, he continued west, hopping from wadi to wadi along the serrated Mediterranean coast. At week's end he was less than 200 miles east of Tripoli, at Wadi Zemzem. The main British forces were 50 miles east, moving with care and caution...