Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin...
...Turn over all Italian territory and French Corsica for Allied military purposes...
...scheme, no delay on the ground fronts can save Germany from air attack on a scale which will dwarf all that the Germans have suffered to date. Sooner or later Italy-and surrendered Corsica-will provide bases for a southern air offensive coordinated with multiplied assault from Britain. Then, under the impact of defeats and bombs, the German people may have something to say about Hitler's choice...
...next afternoon the fleet from La Spezia had made its way to a point near the Strait of Bonifacio, which separates Corsica from Sardinia. Overhead hovered an R.A.F. reconnaissance plane; the ships were still outside Allied fighter range. At about 3:30 p.m. the tailgunner saw planes approaching. They were German Junkers...
...step toward destiny, but only the first step. The world waited for the next step. Ike Eisenhower's forces, massed under the belly of Europe, might strike with sudden full force at Sardinia and Corsica; into southern France; at the western Balkans, long softened by guerrillas.* But the most logical next blow would be at the real body of southern Italy, which the Eighth only nicked at its lowest extremity in Calabria...