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...Sweeping westward on a wide front, British tanks and infantry yesterday pushed to within 70 miles of Benghazi, main Axis north African supply port east of Tripoli, a communiquo announced. The British were believed advancing on Peughazi from the east and northeast, one column following the coastal road around the Libyan hump and the other striking directly across the desert...
CAIRO--Victorious British Imperial forces rolling across Libya at the rate of 60 miles a day, probably have over-run Derna and are surging westward toward Benghazi, 300 miles from the Egyptian border, desert reports indicated tonight...
...desert sun. Beside the road that was pocked with bomb craters lay the ruined trucks and cars in which the Germans tried to escape. From the air, from the flanking desert, the British chased and harried as the whole terrible cavalcade of attackers and attacked rolled still farther westward...
...free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
...they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from it and escorting bombers westward...