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...opening the Mediterranean was only half done when the Allies took all of the African coast. It can be completed only by clearing the islands which dominate the channel. To help do that, Admiral Cunningham must again protect the shipping which transports landing forces, and at the same time engage the enemy. The Italian enemy has run away more often than he has fought, but the fact remains that the Italian fleet has usually been locally superior as far as weight is concerned. Admiral Cunningham's great contribution has been the intimidation and whittling down of that weight...
Italy's navy can be expected to show some fight near home. The job of licking it and still escorting convoys puts Admiral Cunningham in the position, as someone has said, of a man with a woman on his arm, fighting someone heavier than himself...
...Admiral. If anyone can do the job-and do it gallantly-it is Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham...
...side-stands the man whom many Britons call A.B.C. With the exception of one brief tour of duty in Washington last year, while the North African campaign was being planned, he has been commanding in the Mediterranean ever since June 1939. British tars have taken to calling the Mediterranean "Cunningham's Pond...
...Admiral Cunningham first fought as a midshipman in the Boer War. In World War I he was at Gallipoli, and assisted in one of the great exploits of naval history, the bloody blocking of the Zeebrugge canal. Two other assignments in the Mediterranean, between World Wars I and II, taught him the capes and caprices of that...