Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian planes successfully raided Gibraltar and all machines returned to Italy safely after sinking three British destroyers and leaving half of the Rock in flames following a petrol dump explosion...
Mightily surprised were Gibraltar residents, who had seen neither planes nor bombs, to hear this announcement over the Rome radio. Not surprised, but mad clear through, were the people of La Linea, just over the Spanish boundary, when they tuned it in. Early the same morning unidentified planes had swooped over the Spanish town, bombed several houses to bits, killed eight of the townspeople, wounded...
...attack on Russia was preceded by a Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Turkey); the entire Middle East and India would be opened to German attack; not only Suez, but Africa, would be flanked; China would be surrounded; the seas would be opened (assuming the fall of Suez and Gibraltar) to combined Axis Fleets greater than the combined U.S. and British Navies; the Western Hemisphere would be encircled by enemies...
...British believe they have "a pretty good chance of holding Suez and Egypt," are reasonably confident about the struggle for the Mediterranean basin, expect a bitter scrap, believe Gibraltar can withstand a land attack...
...Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from Chicago to California. A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days...