Yiddish
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Yiddish (contracted from
Yidish-daytsh, i.e. Jewish-German). Language used by
Ashkenazi Jews. Yiddish is related to German, but has many Slavic, Hebrew, and
Aramaic words, and it is written in the Hebrew script.
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How artillery beat Rommel after Kasserine. (World War II).(the Red Fox)
Magazine article from: FA Journal; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ahead toward another important pass at Thala, 30 miles northwest...throw into the defense at Kasserine. There was no uncommitted...driving hard up the road from Kasserine to Thala. (4) Only a few...disaster for the US Army at Kasserine, and another worse disaster...be looming at the western ...
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Desert Yield:A Ground Lesson From WWII
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...equipped army. The Battle of Kasserine Pass turned into a major embarrassment...us." He wrote a book called "Kasserine Pass: Where America Lost Her Military...responsible for the disastrous outcome of Kasserine - was relieved of his command and...
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One air force pilot's response to "Afghanistan: Joint and Coalition Fire Support in Operation Anaconda". (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: FA Journal; 1/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...through costly wartime lessons; the Kasserine Pass during World War II provided lessons...Major Shawn Rife's article "Kasserine Pass and the Proper Application...reasons for the American debacle at Kasserine Pass, but perhaps the most significant...
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BEARING THE TORCH
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 11/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...during a fierce battle near the Kasserine Pass. They were blowing up our tanks...the Fatherland. The battle of Kasserine Pass would turn out to be a major...untried, and their defeat at the Kasserine Pass was a valuable lesson on how...
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The fragile nature of leadership.
Magazine article from: Directors & Boards; 9/22/1994; 700+ words
; ...confrontation finally came, at the Kasserine Pass in western Tunisia, the Americans...general who had been in charge at the Kasserine Pass: the very general who Eisenhower...years after the debacle at the Kasserine Pass, the American Army was respected...
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Obituary: Maj-Gen Sir Charles Dunphie
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/24/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...s 26th Armoured Brigade at the Kasserine Pass against Rommel's Panzer Corps...armoured units forward to the head of Kasserine Pass. There he engaged Rommel...his reputation riding high after Kasserine, especially among the Americans...
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CALHOUN COUNTY FARMER RECALLS YEARS AS A POW: IT WASN'T "HOGAN'S HEROES". CAPTURED IN WWII, HE SPENT TWO YEARS AS FARM LABORER. FRIEND MADE BOOKLET OF HIS STORY.(Madison County Post)(Profile\Clayton Gerson)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 8/6/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...resource. Gerson was captured at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia. Outgunned and inexperienced...troops had been unable to hold the pass. "After two days in the mountains...We were supposed to hold the Kasserine Pass, but we failed." After capture...
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`Breakthrough' expands `Medal of Honor' lineup
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 10/30/2003; 696 words
; ...place on a sinking ship and a desperate battle in the midst of a blinding sandstorm at Kasserine Pass. The missions are built around these battles: Kasserine Pass and Bizerte in Tunisia, Sicily, and Monte Cassino, Anzio and Monte Battuglia in...
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AIR HERO RIMKE LOST LONG AGO
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 11/9/2000; 700+ words
; ...Rimke's 26th birthday. As the battle started at the Kasserine Pass in southwestern Tunisia, 12 P-38s took off to back...a few days before Rimke's fatal flight over the Kasserine Pass. "He was a good pilot, one of the best," Pasteris...
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On Computing
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 10/31/2003; ; 693 words
; ...place on a sinking ship and a desperate battle in the midst of a blinding sandstorm at Kasserine Pass. The missions are built around these battles: Kasserine Pass and Bizerte in Tunisia, Sicily, and Monte Cassino, Anzio and Monte Battuglia in...
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Kasserine Pass, Battle of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
KASSERINE PASS, BATTLE OF KASSERINE PASS, BATTLE OF. In a series of engagements in Tunisia during World War II that reached a climax near the Algerian border at the Kasserine Pass, combined Italian and German forces in February 1943 drove...
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Kasserine Pass, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Kasserine Pass, battle of (see...and to guard the passes which bisected them...force to guard the pass. It was made up...to take command at Kasserine and ‘pull...strategies, so that Kasserine was only one of three...
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Kasserine Pass
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kasserine Pass , gap, 2 mi (3.2 km) wide, central Tunisia, in the Grand Dorsal...A key point in the Allied offensive in Tunisia in World War II, the pass was the scene of an Axis breakthrough (Feb. 20, 1943), but it was...
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North African Campaign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Axis forces, in the Battle of Kasserine Pass, drove the Americans and French...BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumenson, Martin. Kasserine Pass. Boston: Houghton Mifflin...Martin Blumenson / a. r. See also Kasserine Pass, Battle of ; World War II...
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Matt Urban
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...attacked U.S. positions in the vicinity of the Kasserine Pass, in the first major action involving American ground...their positions. For his efforts in the Battle of Kasserine Pass, Urban received two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star...
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