Word: gibraltarism
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While the bombers continued to blast away, an Allied convoy of 25 cargo ships and ten large landing barges, escorted by U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers and an aircraft carrier, was reported by the Axis to have streamed past Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. This was the second Allied convoy to enter the Mediterranean last week. The first fought off a night & day attack by Axis bombers and reached port without loss or damage...
...Liberator took off from Gibraltar, soared into the night sky of July 4. Then, soon after the takeoff, its engines stalled and it crashed. Among those killed: General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government in Exile and commander of its armed forces; his daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lesniowska; General Tadeusz Klimecki, Chief of the Polish General Staff; Colonel Andrzej Marecki, military scientist; British Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.P., political liaison officer to Sikorski...
...with out a bomb blast blowing the cigarets out of their fingers. This was the "prolonged, scientific and shattering" bombing which Winston Churchill had threatened six months before. It had come with a fury such as no spot on earth had experienced before. "Impregnable" Pantelleria, Benito Mussolini's Gibraltar in what he once called Mare Nostrum, was doomed...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes...
...Madrid and the Axis reported that Churchill conferred in Gibraltar with Eisenhower, Alexander, Montgomery, Catroux and Giraud. Later the same sources said Churchill had gone to Algiers...