Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden blow through Turkey-but the British also had strengthened their forces in the Middle East, and the Germans no longer had the lower blade of their pincers in Egypt. The Allied occupation of French North Africa left the Germans almost no chance to close the Mediterranean by seizing Gibraltar, as they once had planned. The pincers had been turned upon Hitler...
...dates and olives have modern nations since sought Tunisia. Mussolini, yowling for the "return of Tunisia" (on the basis of a large Italian colony and a claim 1,500 years old), has wanted it to control the Mediterranean. Only 88 miles separate Tunisia from Sicily. A "second Gibraltar," it also has, in Bizerte, one of the world's great harbors. Behind an outside harbor through an inlet is a saltwater lake capable of holding the fleets of Europe...
...Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies in Britain and the Allies in Russia, every foot of Nazi territory can now be attacked from...
...merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will be a mechanized force dispatched from Gibraltar across the narrow channel to Tangier and from there along the coast of North Africa toward Tripoli. Now there you have the pattern of a possible Allied offensive...
Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...