Word: lampedusa
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Some of the reports of activity in the Mediterranean may have been mere puffs of smoke. But there was much kindling on the islands-on Sardinia, Crete, Corsica, Lampedusa, Pantelleria, Sicily-and there was fire near the kindling...
...Lampedusa is eight square miles of rock, 80 miles east of Tunisia, 100 miles west of Malta. Most of it is rugged, but there is flat land at one end where an airfield has been built, and a small harbor on the south, reported to be a torpedo-boat base. The airfield was attacked from Malta last week...
Tooey Spaatz was probably kidding himself. He looks forward to action. After Tunisia is cleared out, Axis bases on Pantelleria and Lampedusa must be blasted off the face of the Mediterranean, the great Axis strongholds on Sicily and Sardinia reduced, Italy or the Balkans-whatever the route-pummeled and softened for the invading Allied armies. It will be a long time before Tooey Spaatz floats up & down on the tidewater of the Potomac...
While U. S. Flying Fortresses alone smashed 44 enemy aircraft on the Axis airdrome at Castel Benito near Tripoli, planes of the Middle East Command hammered Tripoli itself, the nearby port of Homs, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa island in the Sicilian straits...
Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...