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...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...
...over-extended forces. Next he had to bring over from Italy whole new armies to replace the beaten Ninth Army in the north and the newly arrived but already disorganized Eleventh Army in the south. Meantime, Greek and British bombers hammered at the landing places, rendered Valona and Durazzo "almost useless" in the wake of the new arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem. British ships came up and shelled Porto Edda. Daily Allied airmen, through fair weather and foul, bombed and strafed the crawling lines of Italian supply trucks, against which Albanians...
Corizza possesses two of Albania's best military air bases (others are at Tirana, Valona, Durazzo, all near the coast). Not only by heroic uphill righting but even more by knowing from lifelong habit how to get around in the hills, the evzone ("well-girt") highland Greek regiments-Balkan counterparts of Scotland's kilted "Ladies from Hell"-took these commanding positions one by one from the Italians, clambering over the top of the mountains with bayonets and hand grenades, later laboriously hauling up mountain guns...
...grand war strategy is knocking out Italy first, then coping with Hitler. This program began to show in sharp outline last fortnight when the British Middle East forces reoccupied Gallabat and took Italian prisoners near Kassala on the eastern Sudan front-when they struck by air at Naples, Brindisi, Durazzo and Valona from new air footholds in Crete (see p. 23), causing consternation in Rome and loud stories about the Pope's new air-raid shelter...
...much better chance of staying in the eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long desired open battle. Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first stings of war. The glowing crater of Vesuvius lighted the way to blacked-out Naples...