Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-out assault is made on Malta, it may be not only practice for an attack on Britain but a test of whether the Axis will ever be able to make successful assaults from the air on Gibraltar, Alexandria, Suda Bay, Tobruch, other big and little naval bases; whether, in short, the Axis can make the Mediterranean its sea by making the air above an Axis...
...Gibraltar. Germany has already intensified her part in the air war on Britain in the Mediterranean (see p. 28). If the Axis could take Gibraltar, Britain's hold on the Mediterranean would be threatened. Nobody outside the Axis and Spain knows yet what Hitler has cooked up with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Since Hitler visited Spain last October the London-Washington Axis has wooed Spain, and Britain is reported to have strengthened the fortifications of Gibraltar on the land side. A campaign over the run-down railroads of Spain would be risky, but Germany may already have enough supplies...
Axis stories grew and fattened. Berlin reported the 31,000-ton British battleship Malaya towed into Gibraltar, after having been put out of action in the Sicilian battle. Italy's spokesman Virginio Gayda raised Italy's score to ten British warships, then added another cruiser and the aircraft carrier Eagle, both torpedoed...
Standing as solid as Gibraltar on the floor of his office a block from the Capital building, the former Harvard football captain began an uninterrupted discourse with a blast at interventionists who failed to sign up in the last...
Apart from invading Britain at once and winning the war with one supreme smash, which it was doubtful Hitler felt strong enough to do, three other ways of helping Italy suggested themselves: 1) a drive from the west coast of France, down across submissive Spain, at Gibraltar; 2) sending troops from Hitler's pool of 1,000,000 men in Austria (see map) to put some spine into the Italian armies now afield; 3) sending troops from the smaller pool in Rumania, to attack Greece from the rear across Bulgaria...