The War in the Desert1977 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
15th Panzer Division 5th Light Division 7th Armored advance Afrika Korps Agheila airfields Alamein Algiers Allied American antitank guns Armored Division Army's Arnim arrived artillery assault attack Auchinleck Australian Axis forces Axis troops Bardia battalion battle Benghazi Bizerte bombers bombs Brigade Britain's British armor British tanks Cairo captured Capuzzo Casablanca Churchill coast coastal road Colonel commander Corps counterattack Cunningham Cyrenaica Darlan defenses Desert Fox east Egypt Eighth Army Eisenhower El Agheila El Alamein Elisofon enemy fighting fire Fort Capuzzo Fredendall French front Gazala line German Graziani Guettar Hacheim Halfaya Halfaya Pass headquarters hills Hitler infantry Italian landing later Libya Lieut machine-gun Major Mareth Line Mediterranean miles minefields Montgomery move Mussolini night North Africa November O'Connor offensive officers Oran ordered Panzer IV pass Patton planes Regiment retreat Ritchie Rommel sand shells Sidi Barrani soldiers staff supply Tebessa Tobruk trucks Tunis Tunisia vehicles victory wadi Wavell