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Into the Funnel. From the Strait of Gibraltar "twenty steamers, escorted by three battleships (two of them of the Nelson class*), four aircraft carriers (the Eagle, Furious, one of the Illustrious class and one of the U.S. carrier York town class), numerous cruisers, several dozen destroyers and some smaller units" moved slowly into the Mediterranean Sea. This was the Italian report. If it was true, it was one of the greatest Allied naval concentrations in those waters since the war began. The destination: Malta...
...billion of Prudential assets (including the famed trademark, "The Strength of Gibraltar") now belong to the 20 million holders of its $19.5 billion worth of insurance policies (second largest insurance total on earth...
...Mediterranean attack was part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
Best indication of how urgent the British consider the fighting in Libya: they risked a major task force to get a convoy through the Mediterranean from Gibraltar this week. No matter what the cost, it would be worth it; some help would get through...
...great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows...