Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago Germany's Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels said: "We will start on five fronts at the same time and have the war ended before the fall harvest." The four most likely objects of attack were the fortresses of British sea power: the British Isles, Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore. And if Adolf Hitler is not too sure he can reduce the British Empire by harvest time, he may go into the Near East...
With Germany master of the Balkans, it was believed that further Turkish resistance to German influence will depend on whether the Germans also are able to close the Sicilian Straits of Gibraltar, thus breaking the British "Life Line...
After Oran the Royal Navy's only remaining stronghold in the West was Gibraltar, and even the Rock was surrounded by potential enmity-an Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
...East the Battle opened with counterparts of the precautions at Oran and Gibraltar. The British hastily grabbed a French battleship, four cruisers and smaller vessels in Alexandria, and set up a patrol guarding the Suez Canal...
...sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...