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equipped forces had had to travel round by the Cape of Good Hope , a distance of 18,000 miles , we can imagine what the strain on our shipping has been for the last few months , and we can realise what the Navy's share in this gigantic ...
equipped forces had had to travel round by the Cape of Good Hope , a distance of 18,000 miles , we can imagine what the strain on our shipping has been for the last few months , and we can realise what the Navy's share in this gigantic ...
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By this time the Eighth Army had advanced to a maximum depth of five miles on a twelve - mile front , but had not yet broken through to open country . The decisive attack came during the night of November 1-2 .
By this time the Eighth Army had advanced to a maximum depth of five miles on a twelve - mile front , but had not yet broken through to open country . The decisive attack came during the night of November 1-2 .
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Crete is no more than 200 miles from Cyrenaica ; the German garrisons there are unlikely to enjoy the same measure of immunity from bombardment by air that they have enjoyed while the Allied air forces have been fairly fully occupied in ...
Crete is no more than 200 miles from Cyrenaica ; the German garrisons there are unlikely to enjoy the same measure of immunity from bombardment by air that they have enjoyed while the Allied air forces have been fairly fully occupied in ...
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