Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Planes need bases. The Catalinas could fly from the Bismarck to Gibraltar, to Iceland, to Britain, and under ideal weather conditions might be refueled at sea; but shorter-range aircraft over the open sea would be helpless but for aircraft carriers. Britain has eight carriers, Germany has perhaps two, Italy has none. However, airfields ashore are "fixed carriers," and they are better than mobile carriers because they are not bound by sea carriers' limitations, and on the continent of Europe the Axis controls most of the fixed carriers...
...Bismarck the British used almost uncanny coordination. And the Bismarck, without planes to scout and destroyers to screen, was helpless once she was caught. British coordination was almost too keen. In its determination to catch the fat prize, the Royal Navy took a long risk - neglected convoys, deserted Gibraltar, sent out the Home Fleet, left Britain's normal supply lines and normal defenses almost naked of ships. Over 100 vessels were said to be involved in the hunt...
...would be changed, giving Paris and four-fifths of France to Marshal Pétain, leaving Germany the coal and iron mines and industrial areas of the north, and the Channel invasion area. > The Nazis would be allowed to pass through France and into Spain for an attack on Gibraltar. > The Nazis would get control of the rest of the French Navy. > The Nazis would get the full collaboration of France in the production of war materials, possibly full economic collaboration of all sorts. While in Germany last fortnight Admiral Darlan had talked lengthily with Germany's potent economic...
...last week spotters at Algeciras, Spain, near Gibraltar, saw two big British transports go through the straits eastward, escorted by two cruisers and a destroyer. The next day they saw the battle cruiser Repulse, the aircraft carrier Argus and five destroyers set out to catch up with these ships and others which had apparently steamed ahead. There was no question but that the British were determined to get this convoy through. The. weather was stormy and dark, and therefore favorable...
...advantage, but he put such pressure on the Government of old Marshal Pétain that France expected to hear any day that it was committed to all-out collaboration. Spain took a cautious step and assumed control of customs at once international Tangier, across the Strait from Gibraltar. Portugal was in terror of invasion, expected a grab at the Azores and Cape Verde Islands...