Word: wadi
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...Crossing. Peter told the driver to go ahead, and we rumbled up the slope and headed down the other side toward the Wadi Zigzau. Abruptly we came to the brink. Across the wadi machine guns were dueling with unexampled ferocity. Below, between two banks, perhaps 50 yards across, glinted water and broken pieces of ground. It looked like an infernal death trap to enter...
Under Cover. We were in a thin grove of palm trees, on the very bank of the wadi. Among these few trees were crowded a dozen or more Valentine tanks. We scampered out of the carrier and crawled under a tank. My companions under the tank with me, in the fashion of British and American soldiers, began gibing at each other and at the situation...
...plan is for us to cross the wadi to retake the high ground. We will get the support of a creeping barrage. I hope they get that barrage right," he added wistfully...
...went with a captain called Peter in his Bren gun carrier. His job was to go in with the first infantry attack and then to haul mortars and anti-tank guns across the wadi, once we had consolidated our positions. Zero hour was originally 11, then it was postponed until 1 in the morning...
Driving over rocky cliffs southeast of E1 Guettar under heavy fire from hidden German 88-millimeter cannon, the American feet soldiers were advancing due cast toward Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's positions on the Wadi Akarit only 38 miles beyond...