Word: gibraltarism
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...weeks the Spanish peepers by Gibraltar had reported sea traffic pouring through the Pillars of Hercules in volume great enough to carry Mark Clark's Army and then some. One day Berlin reported 23 transports and tankers escorted by carriers, battleships and smaller ships going eastward, two days later reported 150 landing barges, escorted by destroyers and a carrier...
There are the East Surreys, who were once Marines and helped take Gibraltar from the Spanish. On the Somme in 1916 the 8th Battalion advanced more than a mile toward the German trenches kicking four soccer balls, and finally they kicked the balls right into the trenches and the Germans right...
...London reported that German civilians were streaming out of Spain, took this to mean that Hitler had probably abandoned any idea of marching to Gibraltar through Franco territory...
...Vichy reported that great convoys of Allied ships had moved into the Mediterranean. The last big convoys reported by Nazi sources at Gibraltar carried Allied invasion forces to North Africa...
...Risk of Spain. In order to deny the Allies free communications through the Mediterranean, Germany must keep positions in Africa close to opposite positions in Europe. Tunisia and Sicily afford such positions. Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco could also afford them, and Spain itself could close the narrow way from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean...