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Answer to Franco. Engineers labored to perfect airdromes and dock facilities at Casablanca and Dakar, to provide alternate points of entry for planes, men and equipment in case Gibraltar falls and the Mediterranean ports of Algeria are immobilized. Gibraltar is now the principal way station for bombers flown from Britain to North Africa, and perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria...
...with none too many men for the job, and they now have a major struggle to win. The distances are great: to effect a junction of General Montgomery's Army in Libya (based on Alexandria) and General Eisenhower's British and U.S. forces (whose Atlantic base is Casablanca) was like trying to bring together armies from opposite shores of the U.S. (see map), with nothing like the excellent highway and communications facilities of the U.S. Franco's threat was one more strain on Allied manpower and communications...
...building major bases around the world. New ones now at Casablanca, at Oran, and soon, I hope, at Bizerte. Right now we are preparing to establish air and naval facilities at Dakar. We have a tremendous installation in the Persian Gulf. We have built bases along the shores of the Red Sea area, initially to support the British Middle Eastern operations and now for our own air force in that theater. We have run a double track across equatorial Africa. We have established, with the cooperation of Brazil, air facilities in the bulge of Brazil. We have lookouts strung clear...
...Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; TIME...
...Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; Time...