Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...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...