Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Axis from Tunisia will probably take two months. The job may take longer-too long for victory in 1943-if the Germans continue to reinforce their North African armies and to do as well in the fighting as they did last week, or if they suddenly move against Gibraltar...