Word: ajaccio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chilly night last February a French submarine from Algiers sneaked through the Mediterranean, surfaced in Corsica's Ajaccio harbor long enough to let Captain Colonna d'Istria, young scion of an old Corsican family, slip ashore...
...Italian soldiers on the island), two French destroyers brought more guns, strong detachments of French commandomen, 40 tough U.S. Rangers. After seven days of savage fighting, hundreds of Germans lay dead, all the way from southern Bonifacio to northern St. Florent. The Nazis lost the port and capital Ajaccio, began disordered retreat to Bastia. All but won for the Allies was an island which offers: 1) five naval ports; 2) three airports; 3) another springboard for invasion...
...Generals. Proud General Henri Honoré Giraud let the world know that the French Army was freeing "the birthplace of modern France." He flew to Ajaccio, stayed two days, pinned the Knights Cross of the Legion of Honor on Captain d'Istria; replaced Vichy's administrators with new men, sanctioned the re-establishment of elected town councils...
...strip 125 miles wide along the Libyan frontier; 3) demilitarization of the French Somaliland coast and full rights to the harbor of Djibouti and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating to boastful Mussolini were the small favors allowed him that the Italian press played the Armistice down, featured...