Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy could now get oil and cereals from Russia through the Aegean. The Axis would now be able to supply and support ventures in Africa and the Middle East much more easily...
...Royal, were able to cripple the most powerful battleship in the world just before it came within danger range of land air bases in France. Conversely, the British did not dare expose vulnerable aircraft carriers, which they call "floating blocks of flats," in the confined waters of the Aegean; and ships without planes consequently took an unmerciful beating...
...seen camels in Bulgaria, transport planes in Greece, seagoing barges at the Danube's mouth. Correspondents had seen Rumania's Puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu stage a ceremonial farewell for German troops faring southeastward. The Greek islands had been seized. German torpedo boats had appeared in the Aegean, and Nazi "tourists" in their outlandish, paper-stiff civvies had appeared in Syria. The German-French agreement (see p. 27), officially opening Syria to the Nazis, had been signed and sealed...
...Greek airports, rear bases of the German strategy, and Crete, the forward base of the British counterstrategy, were mutually bombed. Next the way stations got it: Italian Rhodes and British Cyprus. Then as German planes hopped across Syria and Axis transports moved from the Black Sea into the Aegean, the R.A.F. bombed Syrian airports and the Fleet Air Arm sowed mines off Syrian ports...
...courage they can muster in Crete. The Germans seem to be committed to blasting and Blitzing the island. Suda Bay, a magnificent natural harbor, is the last important British operating base among the islands of the eastern Mediterranean, and the long island lies across the mouth of the Aegean. Last week, as expected, the Axis continued its process of occupying Aegean islands, definitely closed the Aegean to the British...